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Economy, Energy and Tourism

The remit of the committee is to consider and report on the Scottish economy, enterprise, energy, tourism and all other matters falling within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth apart from those covered by the remits of the Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change and the Local Government and Communities Committees.

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Iain Smith (Convener)
Rob Gibson (Deputy Convener)
Ms Wendy Alexander
Gavin Brown

Christopher Harvie
Marilyn Livingstone
Lewis Macdonald
Dave Thompson

For further information on the Committee's current and past membership including substitutes, follow this link. Information on how to contact the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee can be found on the contact details page.

Current Business
Work programme Committee meetings normally take place weekly. Further information can be found on the work programme page. For the period September 2008 to June 2009, the Committee will focus on its energy inquiry and scrutiny of the Scottish Government's budget proposal. Oral and Written Evidence Scottish Government's Budget 2009-10 SPICe briefing 08-55 Draft Budget 2009-10: Economy, Energy & Tourism (145 KB pdf) Inquiry into energy The Committee is undertaking an inquiry into Scotland's energy future. Further information can be found on the energy inquiry home page. Further information may be found on the current business page.

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View live committee meetings or View archived committee meetings Next meeting: Last meeting: 23rd Meeting, Wednesday 26 November 2008 Papers 23 (523KB pdf first posted 21.11.2008) Minute of Proceedings of Meeting 26 November 2008 Official Report of Meeting 26 November 2008 Previous meetings

Committee Reports
Recent Committee reports: 6 November 2008 7th Report 2008: Report on the legislative consent memorandum on the Energy Bill (UK Parliament Legislation) 10 July 6th Report 2008: Growing Pains - can we achieve a 50% growth in tourist revenue by 2015? 01 July 5th Report: Report on the Energy Technologies Institute 12 June 2008 4th Report 2008: Annual Report 2007-08 9 June 2008 3rd Report 2008: Report on the Legislative consent memorandum on the Energy Bill (UK Parliament legislation) 6 June 2008 2nd Report 2008: Stage 1 Report on the Scottish Register of Tartans Bill Previous reports.