Education Committee, 13 Dec 2006

Meeting date: Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Official Report 204KB pdf

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

Good morning, colleagues. Welcome to the 27th meeting of the Education Committee in 2006. I do not think that there is anything particularly significant about the fact that we are meeting on the 13th day of the month, but who knows.

The first item is consideration of whether to take business in private. I propose that the committee considers the initial draft of its stage 1 report on the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Bill in private today and at next week's meeting. I also propose that we take an approach paper on our inquiry into the implementation of the teachers agreement and discussion of the committee's legacy paper in private at next week's meeting. The rationale for that is that the clerks have drafted the draft report and approach paper without member input and the committee has previously considered that meeting in private to discuss draft papers provides a better opportunity for members to be frank about their views. On the approach paper on the teachers agreement, we will discuss which witnesses we might wish to call. We normally take such discussions in private.

I would be grateful if members would agree to take those items in private. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.