Environment and Rural Development Committee,

Meeting date: Wednesday, May 3, 2006

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Item in Private

Under agenda item 2, the committee is asked whether it agrees to consider a stage 1 report on the Crofting Reform etc Bill in private at all future meetings until we have agreed the report. That is what we usually do with reports on bills, because it allows committee members to discuss in detail the issues that witnesses have raised. Mark Brough tells me that we are likely to consider our draft report at the meeting after our final evidence session in Inverness. It would help us to plan that meeting if we knew that that item would be taken in private. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.