Finance Committee,
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 16, 2000
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Scottish Parliament Finance Committee Tuesday 16 May 2000 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 09:49]
Colleagues, I bring this meeting of the Finance Committee to order. First, I want to welcome, on record, Callum Thomson, who is now clerk team leader to the Finance Committee. His replacement as senior assistant clerk is Anne Peat. Sean Wixted remains as assistant clerk. I want also to pay a warm tribute to Sarah Davidson for her work over the first year of the committee. She has been a tremendous help to me, a very wise counsel and I am sorry to see her go. She goes on to other things, which I hope, from her point of view, will be greater. In the meantime, the work of the committee carries on. On behalf of the committee as a whole, I record our thanks to Sarah Davidson for her efforts.
We have a full agenda today and we are a little more time constrained than usual because we are in a three-committee cycle. We have received apologies from some members, largely due to the fact that the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee is meeting at the same time as us and is dealing with stage 1 consideration of legislation. John Swinney, who is convener of that committee, Elaine Thomson and Adam Ingram are therefore unable to be with us.
Before we move to item 1 on the agenda, I seek the committee's formal agreement to hold item 4 on the agenda—the preparation for taking evidence at item 5—in private. Is that agreed?
Members indicated agreement.