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Agenda item 1 is consideration of whether to take item 3 in private and whether to take any discussion of a draft report in private at any future meeting. Is that agreed?Members indicated agreement.
I welcome formally our adviser, Christopher Gane, to the committee.I ask the committee to agree that at future meetings we meet in private to discuss the content of the stage 1 report on the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill.
I also ask members whether they agree that future decisions on witness expenses for the Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) Bill should be delegated to the convener.Members indicated agreement.
Regulation of Care(Registration and Registers) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003(SSI 2003/148) The Subordinate Legislation Committee has made comments to the Executive on defective drafting, which the Executive has acknowledged and will take account of in future instruments. No members' comments have been received and no motion to annul has been lodged...
The convener has some transport problems this morning, but I hope that she will arrive in the not-too-distant future. We have a fairly tight schedule and a lot of work to get through today, so we will make a start.
Committee Business The first item for discussion is next week's reporters' paper on future committee business. That could be described as a housekeeping matter, as the paper will set out the views of reporters on the programming of committee time after the summer recess and beyond.
We talked about the principle of consolidation for ease of future reference. We have flagged this up before, and a wee bit of nudging in that direction again will not go wrong.
You will have a business plan for the future if a ban is introduced. You have probably looked into the benefits of a ban, some of which have been mentioned.