Education and Skills Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 11, 2019

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Interests

Good morning and welcome to the 24th meeting of the Education and Skills Committee in 2019. I remind everyone present to turn their mobile phones and other devices to silent for the duration of the meeting.

Under agenda item 1, I invite declarations of interests from our new committee members. I thank Johann Lamont and Oliver Mundell, who have now left the committee, for their contributions to the committee’s work over the past few years. Johann Lamont has been replaced by Mr Daniel Johnson; Oliver Mundell has been replaced by Ms Alison Harris; and Tavish Scott, whom I thanked last week, has been replaced by Ms Beatrice Wishart. I welcome Alison Harris, Beatrice Wishart and Daniel Johnson to the committee and invite them to declare any relevant interests.

I have no interests to declare.

I have no interests to declare.

I probably should declare that, up until this past Monday, I was a councillor at Shetland Islands Council, where I was a member of the education and families committee.