Scottish Parliament Finance Committee Tuesday 3 October 2000 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 10:04]
We are rather light on numbers but we are quorate.
Welcome to today's meeting of the Finance Committee. Please switch off all mobile phones and set pagers to buzz.
I have no apologies for absence but I have had apologies for late arrival from David Davidson and Elaine Thomson, who are on the late-running train from Aberdeen, and from Andrew Wilson.
I offer my congratulations to Adam Ingram on his appointment as Scottish National Party deputy spokesperson on finance. I am sure that his work on the committee and as spokesperson will be mutually beneficial.
I invite the committee to agree to take agenda items 5 and 6 in private. Is that agreed?
Members indicated agreement.