 Good morning and welcome to the third meeting of the Hutchison hospital transfer and dissolution Scotland bill committee. Can I remind all those present, including members, that mobile phones should be set to silent? Agenda item 1 is a decision on whether to consider the draft preliminary stage report in private at our future meetings. I want to ask colleagues if they are agreeable to that. Degree. Thank you. The next items on our agenda are the consideration of written evidence received by the committee and of issues for the preliminary stage report. C responsibilities. The committee will meet on Wednesday the 12th of December, during which we expect to consider the draft preliminary stage report. That means that the public business of this committee is now concluded and moved to private session. We will suspend briefly to allow any members of the public or our officials to leave the room.