Rural Affairs and Environment Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

I welcome everyone to the Rural Affairs and Environment Committee’s 25th meeting in 2010. Please remember to turn off your mobile phones and BlackBerrys, as they impact on the broadcasting system. I think that the system is up and working again; at one point, we thought that we might have had to operate the buttons ourselves today. Sandra White is substituting for Aileen Campbell.

Agenda item 1 is consideration of whether to take items in private. I propose that we take in private item 5 and any future consideration of budget evidence and our draft report. Item 5 is consideration of the committee’s approach to the Scottish Government’s draft budget proposals for 2011-12. Members will remember that we took evidence on tenant farming last week, and we will consider a draft letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment on that issue next week. I propose that we take that item in private as well. Do we agree to take item 5 in private today and to take those other items in private in the future?

Members indicated agreement.