Forth Crossing Bill Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Official Report 363KB pdf

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Decisions on Taking Business in Private

Good morning and welcome to the seventh meeting of the Forth Crossing Bill Committee. We start—as all these meetings invariably start—with a request for all pagers, mobile phones and BlackBerrys to be switched off to ensure that they do not interfere with the pyrotechnics.

Item 1 is to consider whether to take in private item 5, which is preliminary consideration of objections. As standing orders make clear, this is one of the committee’s roles at stage 1. Our decisions on objections will be published in our stage 1 report. Given the need for a full discussion, I am minded to take the item in private. Are colleagues agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

In a similar vein, item 2 is about consideration of our draft stage 1 report. I suggest that, for reasons that are similar to those I have just outlined, we consider the report in private. Are colleagues minded to accept that recommendation?

Members indicated agreement.