Seòmar agus comataidhean

Is the committee content with the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

Welcome to the second meeting in 2023 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. We have received apologies from our convener, Stuart McMillan MSP. In his place, I welcome Jenni Minto MSP. Before we move to the first item on the agenda, I remind everyone present to switch their mobile phones to silent.

The first item of business is to decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. Is the committee content to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 2, we are considering one instrument, on which no points have been raised.

Under agenda item 3, we are considering one instrument, on which no points have been raised.

Is the committee content with the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you for that, minister.

We are looking for information in relation to this particular bill. Let us try to be helpful to everyone here. If your officials and the clerks can work to pull those issues together, we can bring them back to the committee at the next meeting or the one thereafter, and I hope that that will satisfy members. If any new questions come out of that process, we can take them forward.

There are one or two areas that we might need to look into more widely. I thank the minister and his officials for attending. We will be in touch again, no doubt. I wish you all a happy new year and we will see you back here in the future.

I suspend the meeting to allow our guests to leave.

Is the committee content with the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

At the same time, does the committee wish to note the Scottish Government’s proposal for rectifying the error?

Members indicated agreement.