SCOTS Project - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk Document : 1106 Title : Scottish Parliament: Committees: Audit: Minutes: Meeting 4, 2000 Author(s): Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Copyright holder(s): Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body: © Scottish Parliamentary copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Queen's Printer for Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. Text AUDIT COMMITTEE MINUTES 4th Meeting, 2000 (Session 1) Tuesday 7 March 2000 Present: Brian Adam Scott Barrie Cathie Craigie Miss Annabel Goldie Margaret Jamieson Mr Nick Johnstone (Deputy Convener) Paul Martin Euan Robson Mr Andrew Welsh (Convener) Andrew Wilson Apologies were received from Lewis Macdonald The meeting opened at 2.00 pm. 1. Scottish Ambulance Service (in private): The Committee discussed the proposed conduct of the meeting and considered possible lines of questioning to pursue in the evidence-taking session. The Committee agreed to hold the last 30 minutes of the meeting in private and also that its next meeting on 21 March should be held in private. The meeting went into public session at 2.28pm. 2. The Financial Reporting Advisory Board, FRAB. The Committee considered correspondence and memoranda from the Minister for Finance and the National Audit Office on FRAB. It was agreed that the Convener should write to the Minister for Finance indicating the Committee’s agreement that he should enter into negotiations to seek an extended remit for the Financial Reporting Advisory Board. 3. Evidence: The Committee took evidence from- Mr Adrian Lucas, Chief Executive, Scottish Ambulance Service Mr Geoff Scaife, Chief Executive, NHS in Scotland Mr Mike Allen, Manager, Management Information Department, Scottish Ambulance Service Mr Calum Kerr, Manager, West Central Division, Scottish Ambulance Service Sir David Carter, Chief Medicial Officer, Scottish Executive Health Department on the report by the Comptroller and Auditor General – ‘The Scottish Ambulance Service: A Service for Life’. 4. Conduct of Business (in private): The Committee considered the oral evidence it had taken under agenda item 3. The meeting closed at 4.49 pm. Sarah Davidson Clerk to the Committee This work is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The SCOTS Project and the University of Glasgow do not necessarily endorse, support or recommend the views expressed in this document. Document source: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/historic/audit/mop-00/aumop0307.htm Information about document and author: Text Text audience General public: Audience size: 1000+ Text details Method of composition: Wordprocessed Year of composition: 2000 Word count: 279 General description: Committee Minutes. See http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/index.htm Text medium Web (webpages, discussion boards, newsgroups, chat rooms): Text publication details Published: Publisher: Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Publication year: 2000 Place of publication: www.scottish.parliament.uk Text setting Government/politics: Text type Written record of speech (e.g. hansard, legal proceedings, minutes of meetings): Author Author details Author id: 908 Surname: Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body