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SPCB Written Question · S2W-08054 · Session 2

How many times each parliamentary committee has met outside the parliamentary complex in each year since 1999.

Answered Asked by Richard Lochhead SNP Lodged 5 May 2004

The question

To ask the Presiding Officer how many times each parliamentary committee has met outside the parliamentary complex in each year since 1999.

The answer

Answered by George Reid on 18 May 2004 · 13 days after it was lodged, on time

The number of formal committee meetings held outside the parliamentary complex by each committee in each year since 1999 is shown in the table. The table does not include fact finding trips or committee events, details of which for the period 1999 to 2002 can be found in the source sheets published on the Parliament’s website at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S1/parl_bus/annreps.html, and in the annualreports by committees published by the Parliament.

Committee Meetings Outside Edinburgh since 1999
Committee
| 1999-2000
| 2000-01
| 2001–02
| 2002–03

Audit
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 0

Education, Culture and Sport
| 0
| 3
| 2
| 2

Enterprise and Lifelong Learning
| 1
| 1
| 1
| 2

Equal Opps
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 1

European
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 0

Finance
| 0
| 1
| 2
| 2

Health and Community Care
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 2

Justice and Home Affairs
| 1
| 2
| n/a
| n/a

Justice 1
| n/a
| 0
| 0
| 1

Justice 2
| n/a
| 0
| 2
| 0

Local Government
| 2
| 1
| 0
| 2

Procedures
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0

Public Petitions
| 1
| 1
| 0
| 0

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-08054 by reference.