Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Meeting date: Thursday, January 17, 2013

Official Report 314KB pdf

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

Welcome to the first meeting in 2013 of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. I remind members to turn off mobile phones, BlackBerrys and so on.

We have apologies from John Lamont, who is unable to attend the meeting today, and from our deputy convener, Helen Eadie, who has been delayed in her journey from Fife due to traffic difficulties arising from a road accident, I believe. I hope that she will be able to join us fairly soon.

Under agenda item 1, I ask members to agree to take agenda items 3 and 4 in private. Item 3 concerns a discussion of a procedure for considering complaints about cross-party groups and item 4 relates to a possible amendment to a recently published cross-party group report. Are members content to take the items in private?

Members indicated agreement.