Finance Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Official Report 373KB pdf

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

Good morning, and welcome to the 30th meeting in 2012 of the Scottish Parliament’s Finance Committee.

I apologise for being late. I did not realise that the meeting was to start at 9.30; to be honest, I still do not understand why it was to start then, given our fairly limited agenda. That said, I repeat my apology.

Everyone present should turn off their mobile phones, BlackBerrys and pagers, please. We have received formal apologies from Michael McMahon.

I warmly welcome to our meeting a delegation from the Indonesian Government’s Ministry of National Development Planning and Ministry of Finance, and the World Bank. The delegation is in the public gallery.

The first item on the agenda is to decide whether to take item 3, our draft report on improving employability, in private, and further consideration of the draft report in private at future meetings, if necessary. Do members agree to do so?

Members indicated agreement.