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I welcome everyone back. Item 2 is consideration of the committee’s annual report; a draft copy is included in members’ papers. The annual report reflects the work that we have done in the past year and some topics on which we have focused, with information on how many meetings we have had and so on. Do members have any comments, questions or requests for clarification?
The report is very good. It is a brief summary of the work that we did, and we appreciate the clerks’ work in putting it together. I suggest only that we include links to reports that we produced and make them available in an online or paper version.
Do we want to include any of the committee’s press releases or information that we have released via the embassies for information?
The press releases would not go in the annual report.
No—we would not put in the actual press releases; we should simply refer to the ones that we produced, because they represent work that the committee did, unless we are not happy with them.
The report must take a certain format, and we cannot include the press releases, because they are not up on the website. We will just cover what we have done in committee.
Perhaps the press releases should be there—we can take that on board for the future. I do not want to make life difficult for people but, if we do things, we should talk about them and share them.
Are there any other points?
No.
Do we agree to take my point on board for the future?
I think that we would need to have a procedural discussion on it.
I am very happy with the report, and I thank the clerking team for its work on the report.
Are members happy to agree the annual report?
Members indicated agreement.
Thank you.
10:45 Meeting continued in private until 11:22.