Audit Committee, 09 Nov 2004

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Official Report 136KB pdf

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Items in Private

Welcome to the slightly delayed 19th meeting this year of the Audit Committee. I welcome the Auditor General for Scotland and his team and the members of the public and press who have joined us. I apologise for the slight delay in starting, but our informal meeting overran slightly and we needed a break before this meeting started. I remind everyone to switch off their pagers and mobile phones, so that they do not interfere with the public address system.

We have a short but no less interesting agenda today. The first item is, as usual, to seek the committee's agreement to take items in private. I seek the committee's agreement to take 4 and 5—the last two items on our agenda—in private. Item 4 is to enable the committee to consider arrangements for its inquiry into the reports by the Auditor General for Scotland entitled "Commissioning community care services for older people" and "Adapting to the future: Management of community equipment and adaptations". Item 5 is to enable the committee to consider its approach to the report by the Auditor General for Scotland entitled "Maintaining Scotland's roads". Do we agree to take items 4 and 5 in private?

Members indicated agreement.