Audit Committee,
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Official Report
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Items in Private
I welcome members to the 10th meeting in 2004 of the Audit Committee and remind everyone to switch off their mobile phones and pagers, so that the whips cannot get us. I also welcome the Auditor General for Scotland and his team. We have received apologies from Susan Deacon, who has to leave at about 11 o'clock because of another engagement, and from Margaret Jamieson and Rhona Brankin, who cannot be with us today due to ill health.
The first item on the agenda is on matters that we seek to take in private—I will run through them for the benefit of the committee. Item 4 is consideration of proposals for Audit Scotland's future programme of performance studies. Item 5 is a briefing on the Auditor General's report "Better equipped to care? Follow-up report on managing medical equipment". Item 6 is consideration of the key issues that arose from the committee's inquiry into the "Overview of the National Health Service in Scotland 2002/03". Item 7 is consideration of the committee's approach to the Auditor General's report "Day surgery in Scotland – reviewing progress". Item 8 is consideration of possible findings and recommendations on the Auditor General's report on the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body accounts, "The 2002-03 Audit of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body".
Members will have noticed that we will take five items in private if the committee agrees to do so. That reflects the amount of work that we are processing at the moment. It is unfortunate that there are so many items in private today, but we have to work through them. Do members agree to take items 4 to 8 in private?
Members indicated agreement.
I also seek the committee's agreement to take in private lines of questioning for the witnesses at the evidence session on 25 May, when we will discuss the Auditor General's report on managing medical equipment. Our normal practice is to put such items on the agenda as a private item. Members will be aware that we will discuss at our away day whether to change that practice. Do members agree to take that matter in private?
Members indicated agreement.