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In the latter case, a reporter and small groups making visits are helpful. However, when a committee is acting in a judicial capacity and a visit takes place, all committee members should participate.
This is a policy matter, but I am curious to know, in relation to SSI 2005/630, why the periods between visits have been extended. Perhaps that is not our business.
Unfortunately, I have to leave the meeting at 11.15 because a group of schoolchildren from my constituency is visiting the Parliament. From that time, the deputy convener, John Scott, will convene the meeting.
I welcome committee members, witnesses and members of the public to what is—perhaps sadly—the final meeting of the Rural Development Committee in this session of the Parliament. Some visiting members are due later. First, I issue apologies from Fergus Ewing, Irene Oldfather and Elaine Smith.