Rural Development Committee, 27 Feb 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, February 27, 2001

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Scottish Parliament Rural Development Committee Tuesday 27 February 2001 (Afternoon)

[The Convener opened the meeting at 14:03]

Good afternoon. As far as I understand it, today we will have no more members than we have already. We have received apologies from Margaret Ewing, Jamie Stone, Richard Lochhead and Alex Fergusson.

I propose to proceed with today's agenda but, as we are significantly short of members, if we think that more members should be present before we make a specific decision or if we want to have the benefit of the opinion of a particular member or members, I am prepared to move over items and bring them back to a later agenda.

I suggest that we do that with item 6, as four members are not here. We should return to that issue at a later meeting.

In the past, we have dealt with the draft report on the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill in private and I propose that we do that today to allow us to decide whether there is anything the clerk needs to sort out. I take your point, Mike, and I think that it would be sensible for any discussion on that agenda item to be brief. Are we agreed on that?

Members indicated agreement.