Audit Committee,
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Official Report
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Item in Private
Good morning and welcome to the seventh meeting in 2006 of the Scottish Parliament's Audit Committee. I remind everyone to turn off pagers and mobile telephones.
I welcome to the meeting my colleagues on the committee and members of the Audit Scotland team, including Caroline Gardner, Bob Leishman, Jim Martin and Karen Chapman. We have received apologies from Susan Deacon, a member of the committee, who has business relating to another committee that she sits on and therefore has to be in Edinburgh.
I am pleased to be holding this meeting in Inverness. One of the reasons why we are holding the meeting here is to allow the public of Inverness to attend easily, and I welcome all those who have made the effort to come along. We also have with us a number of witnesses from Inverness College management and the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council.
The first item is for the committee to agree to take in private the third and final item on the agenda, under which the committee will consider the evidence that we have heard. Do members agree to take item 3 in private?
Members indicated agreement.