Audit Committee, 16 Sep 2003
Meeting date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Official Report
253KB pdf
Items in Private
I welcome the public and press to this meeting of the Audit Committee, although they are probably not yet quite through the doors. I remind members that mobile phones and pagers should be switched off. We have received no apologies for this meeting.
Item 2 on our agenda is to seek the committee's consent to take items 5, 6 and 7 in private. Item 5 is discussion of our evidence-taking session on individual learning accounts and how we might formulate our report. Such discussion normally takes place in private. Item 6 is discussion of the Audit Scotland report on the Scottish Further Education Funding Council, on which we are going to receive a public briefing. Usually we meet in private to consider how to take forward such reports. Similarly, item 7 is discussion of how to progress the report on general practitioner prescribing.
Do members agree to take agenda items 5, 6 and 7 in private?
Members indicated agreement.
We could decide under item 7 to discuss in private lines of questioning for witnesses at the evidence-taking session on GP prescribing that will take place on 30 September, but I would prefer us to record our view on that matter in public. Do members agree to open our meeting of 30 September in private to consider lines of questioning for those witnesses?
Members indicated agreement.
We have decided that items 5, 6 and 7 on the agenda for today's meeting will be taken in private and that, at the beginning of our meeting of 30 September, we will discuss questions to witnesses in private.