Environment and Rural Development Committee,

Meeting date: Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Official Report 152KB pdf

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Annual Report

We move to item 2, which is consideration of our committee annual report. Members have a draft copy of the report, which is laid out according to a format that was approved by the Conveners Group and which the clerks have had to follow. There is a length and content limit and I understand that we are one word within the length limit. If any member has one word that they want to add, they can do so, but I will not look kindly on any such suggestions.

As when dealing with budgets, if anyone wants to add two words, they have also to nominate the word they would like to have removed.

Exactly. Members might wish to consider whether they would like to do that.

In order to meet the publication deadline, we have to sign off the report today. I found the report quite useful; it reminds us of the huge amount of work that we have done as a team over the past year, particularly given the fact that some members are on more than one committee. It will give external organisations a good record of what we have done over the year. Having read the draft report, does any member have a comment, change or other suggestion to make?

I will take members' silence on the matter as a sign of their complete assent. Are we agreed that the report should go forward for publication?

Members indicated agreement.