Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee

1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether item 4, and any future consideration of evidence on Draft Budget Scrutiny 2018-19, should be taken in private. 2. Draft Budget Scrutiny 2018-19: The Committee will take evidence from— Graham Black, Director, Mike Palmer, Deputy Director, and Michael McLeod, Head of Marine Conservation, Marine Scotland; and then from— Wayne Powell, Principal and Chief Executive, Gavin MacGregor, Director of Professional Services, Jamie Newbold, Academic Director, and Mike Wijnberg, Managing Director SAC Consulting, Scotland's Rural College. 3. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instrument— The Water Environment (Miscellaneous) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (SSI 2017/389). 4. Draft Budget Scrutiny 2018-19: The Committee will consider evidence heard earlier in the meeting.