Audit Committee, 19 Dec 2006
Meeting date: Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Official Report
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Decision on Taking Business in Private
I welcome everyone to the 18th meeting in 2006 of the Scottish Parliament's Audit Committee. In particular, I welcome the Auditor General for Scotland and his team, committee members and members of the public and the media.
We have received apologies from Andrew Welsh, who is unable to attend because of constituency business. We welcome John Swinney as his substitute. We have also received apologies from Mary Mulligan, who will arrive late—also due to constituency business.
I remind members to switch off their mobile phones and pagers. We have a busy programme today. That will probably be reflected in less small talk from me.
Item 1 is to decide whether to take items 6 and 7 in private. Item 6 is the committee's consideration of the evidence that it will take under item 5 on relocation of Scottish Executive departments. Item 7 is the committee's consideration of our approach to the reports on which we will be briefed today and those on which we were briefed at our previous meeting so that we can decide how we wish to respond to them. The question is, that agenda items 6 and 7 be taken in private. Are we agreed?
Members indicated agreement.