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Title    : Scottish Parliament: Committees: Finance: Minutes: Meeting 4,
2003
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FINANCE COMMITTEE
MINUTES
4th Meeting, 2003 (Session 1)
Tuesday 11 February 2003 
 
  

Present:

Brian Adam
Mr David Davidson
Alasdair Morgan
Tom McCabe (Convener)
Jamie Stone
Elaine Thomson (Deputy Convener)
Dr Richard Simpson
  
 
 
The meeting opened at 2.04 p.m

 
 
1. Scotland's Budget Documents 2003-04: The Committee took evidence from-

Peter Peacock MSP, Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Services;

Richard Dennis, Scottish Executive Finance Co-ordination;

Richard Wilkins, Scottish Executive Finance Co-ordination.

2. Budget (Scotland) (No. 4) Bill: The Committee considered the Bill at
Stage 2.

The following amendments were agreed to without division: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8. 

Sections 1 and 2, schedules 3 and 4, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 were
agreed to without amendment.

Schedules 1 and 2, section 3, schedule 5 and the long title were agreed to
as amended. 

The Committee completed Stage 2 consideration of the Bill. 

3. Outcome Budgeting: The Committee took evidence from-

Peter Peacock MSP, Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Services;

Richard Dennis, Scottish Executive Finance Co-ordination;

Richard Wilkins, Scottish Executive Finance Co-ordination.

The Committee agreed to refer the item to its successor committee for
further consideration.

Jamie Stone declined to take part in agenda item 4 due to his membership of
the Holyrood Progress Group.

4. Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body - Report on the Scottish
Parliament Building Project: The Committee considered a report on the
progress of the Holyrood Project and took evidence from-

Paul Grice, Clerk and Chief Executive, Scottish Parliament;

Robert Brown MSP, Member, Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body;

John Home Robertson MSP, Convener, Holyrood Progress Group;

Sarah Davidson, Project Director, Holyrood Project Team.

5. Visit by the House of Commons' Modernisation Committee: The Committee
considered an invitation to a Member of the Committee to attend a working
lunch with the Modernisation Committee, and agreed that Alasdair Morgan
should attend on behalf of the Finance Committee.

6. Cross-Cutting Review (in private): The Committee considered a draft
report on its cross-cutting expenditure review on Children in Poverty.

The meeting closed at 4.54 p.m..
 




David McGill,
Acting Clerk to the Committee


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