Rural Development Committee, 14 Jan 2003

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 14, 2003

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Scottish Parliament Rural Development Committee Tuesday 14 January 2003 (Afternoon)

[The Convener opened the meeting at 14:03]

Right, ladies and gentlemen, we are a little late starting and we have a lot to get through. I welcome committee members, witnesses and members of the public to this meeting of the Rural Development Committee. I give my usual reminder that all mobile phones should be switched off. That applies particularly in this room, because even if the phones are put on silent running, they affect the technological arrangements for recording the meeting. I urge everybody to ensure that mobile phones are switched off until I say otherwise.

Jamie McGrigor will be late and I intimate apologies from Irene Oldfather and Fergus Ewing.