Audit Committee, 17 Jun 2003
Meeting date: Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Official Report
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Items in Private
I welcome members of the Parliament, members of the public and our guests to the second meeting of the Audit Committee. Everyone should ensure that their mobile phones and pagers are off.
We have not received any apologies. We hope that Robin Harper can make it, but I know that he was unwell on Friday, so that may tell us something.
We would normally take items 6 and 7 on the agenda in private. I say "we" advisedly, as this is a new committee, but our predecessor committee took such items in private in the past. Under those items, we shall be discussing the briefings given by the Auditor General for Scotland. The reason for holding them in private is so that we can have a full and frank discussion about whom we should call as witnesses, what procedures we should follow and what remit we might want. It is therefore suggested that we should take agenda items 6 and 7 in private. Are members agreed?
Members indicated agreement.
Thank you. Once we have bedded in the committee, of course, we might take a different view on how we discuss such briefings. For the moment, however, I think it best that we follow previous procedures until we are more comfortable with how things progress.
Robin Harper is not here yet, so we shall keep item 2 in abeyance until such time as he is able to attend.