Finance Committee, 05 Jun 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 5, 2001

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Equal Opportunities

The next item for consideration is a brief paper on the important issue of mainstreaming equal opportunities in committees. I have been asked to agree that a member of this committee should attend the workshop that will take place on that subject. The date for the workshop has not yet been finalised. I caution members that a meeting of this committee is scheduled provisionally for the evening of Wednesday 20 June. It may not be necessary, depending on how quickly we are able to complete our budget report, but we have asked members to keep that slot clear.

Given the strong comments that the Equal Opportunities Committee made in its report on the budget, we should certainly be represented at the meeting. If Elaine Thomson, who was our reporter for the Equal Opportunities Committee, wishes to attend, I think that she should have first refusal. If, for whatever reason, she is not able to go, we should get someone else to go in her stead. Is that agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

That would be the case even if the committee were meeting on that day.