The Education and Skills Committee decided to produce the body of its annual report in video format for the parliamentary reporting year 12 May 2017 to 11 May 2018.

The Committee met 33 times in this parliamentary year and considered agenda items in private at 30 meetings (52 items in total). The detail of the issues that were considered by the Committee is provided in the video available online below.

The following members left the Committee during this reporting period:

• Ross Thomson MSP (8 June 2016 to 12 June 2017)

• Colin Beattie MSP (8 June 2016 to 16 November 2017)

• Clare Haughey MSP (30 March 2017 to 16 November 2017)

• Daniel Johnson MSP (8 June 2016 to 9 January 2018)

The following members joined the Committee during this reporting period:

• Oliver Mundell MSP on 29 June 2017

• George Adam MSP on 16 November 2017

• Richard Lochhead MSP on 16 November 2017

• Mary Fee MSP on 9 January 2018

Ruth Maguire MSP was replaced by Gordon MacDonald MSP on 24 May 2018, which occurred after the end of the reporting period but before this report was published.