Finance Committee, 12 Mar 2002
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 12, 2002
Official Report
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Scottish Parliament Finance Committee Tuesday 12 March 2002 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 10:07]
I open the Finance Committee's fifth meeting of 2002 in public and welcome everybody who has come along. I apologise for the late start and remind people to turn off mobile phones so that we are not interrupted.
We have apologies from Alasdair Morgan, who is unwell. Elaine Thomson has said that she will step down from the committee, so I place on record our thanks for her work as a committee member. She was an original member of the committee, so she has been a member for a considerable time. I would like that to be in the Official Report.
Fergus Ewing and Margo MacDonald have said that they will attend the meeting and I presume that they will join us in due course. I welcome Professor Midwinter.
At our previous meeting, Jamie Stone declared his membership of the Holyrood progress group. As a result, he will absent himself from agenda item 3. He has also decided to take no part in items 1 and 2, as they could involve issues that are connected with the Holyrood project. He will join us later.
We have three agenda items for which the same four people are witnesses. For the press and the public, I will make clear our business. The three items are separate. There may be some overlap, especially between items 1 and 2, but I ask members to confine their questioning to the item that is under consideration.