Equal Opportunities Committee, 08 Jan 2002

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 8, 2002

Official Report 96KB pdf

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Items in Private

I welcome everyone back to the first committee meeting after the new year. I hope that members had a good break and that they are looking forward to what will be the committee's last full calendar year this session.

Agenda item 1 is to ask the committee to agree to take item 5, which is consideration of the general principles of the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) (Scotland) Bill; item 6, which is consideration of a paper on the gender inquiry; and item 7, which is consideration of the committee's future work programme, in private. Is that agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

We have received apologies from the new member, Tommy Sheridan, so item 2, which was his declaration of interests, will not happen. We have also received apologies from Jamie Stone, Elaine Smith, Kay Ullrich and Gil Paterson.