Enterprise and Culture Committee,

Meeting date: Tuesday, May 2, 2006

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Scottish Parliament Enterprise and Culture Committee Tuesday 2 May 2006

[The Convener opened the meeting at 14:04]

I welcome everybody to the 12th meeting in 2006 of the Enterprise and Culture Committee.

On a point of order, convener. It was brought to my attention at the end of last week that the Official Report of our meeting last week would not be available until tomorrow. When we took evidence from Scottish Enterprise officials last week, a range of issues was raised and it would have been extremely helpful to have the Official Report of that meeting today, when we have the Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning before us.

My understanding is that the Official Report of last week's meeting is not available today because of the bank holiday yesterday. I wonder whether you can look into the matter with a view to trying to ensure that in future we have the Official Report of the previous meeting at least before the start of the current meeting, irrespective of bank holidays.

Thanks very much indeed. The member gave me notice of his point of order and I know that other members share his concern—as indeed do I. In principle, the Official Report of a previous meeting must be available before the current meeting. I will raise the matter with the Conveners Group to try to put procedures in place to ensure that the Official Report is always available for a meeting in time for members to read it prior to the meeting taking place.

I have apologies from Karen Gillon and I remind everybody to switch off their mobile phones.