Education, Culture and Sport Committee, 02 Oct 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 2, 2001

Official Report 111KB pdf

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Scottish Ballet

I reconvene the meeting. As we will meet in public for about five minutes, members of the public may come in.

We will circulate the voluminous and copious quantity of further evidence that we have received—it is like mark 2 of our Hampden inquiry. Yet more files, Mr Russell, but you asked for more evidence last week.

That is another rainforest gone.

You have seen it, then. We will have to draw a line—no more evidence.

All the further information that we asked for last week has arrived. We have received information from the Scottish Arts Council, including a copy of a helpful letter from it to Scottish Ballet, which asks a series of questions and sets out a number of issues. I do not know whether members have seen that letter yet, but it is included in this package of information.

Members might be otherwise minded—for example, there might be pressing matters on which they wish to take further evidence—but my view is that we have a copious quantity of evidence to read through and that we have enough on which to base our report. I suggest that members should be given time to read through the evidence that we have received, with a view to discussing a draft report at our next meeting.

I agree that we should have our discussion on the general lines of our report in private. Time is of the essence.

We now move into private session.

Meeting continued in private.

Meeting continued in public.