Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee,

Meeting date: Wednesday, May 1, 2002

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Scottish Parliament Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee Wednesday 1 May 2002 (Morning)

[The Convener opened the meeting at 10:05]

Good morning and welcome to the 14th meeting in 2002 of the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee. I have received two apologies. Adam Ingram has apologised for his absence, and Marilyn Livingstone, who is en route from Fife, has been held up in traffic.

I welcome to the committee Tom McCabe MSP, who is here as the reporter—spy—from the Finance Committee to make sure that we are doing our job properly. I also welcome Richard Lochhead MSP, who is here for the evidence-taking session with Scottish Enterprise—any member of the Scottish Parliament can participate in committee meetings and ask questions. I also welcome Sandra Bedborough, who is from Scottish Enterprise Fife. She is shadowing Tavish Scott MSP—I am sure that that will be a pleasure for her—as part of the Parliament's business exchange scheme. Finally, I welcome Michael Smyth, from the University of Ulster, who is the committee's adviser on the budget process.