Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 6, 2023

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Interests

Good morning, and welcome to the 12th meeting in 2023 of the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee—our first meeting after the summer recess, which I hope all have enjoyed, notwithstanding the weather.

Our first item is a declaration of interests. As members will recall, our colleague Alexander Stewart has left the committee. We were able to thank him for his work when he was last with us. I gather that Alexander will be able to join us at the launch next week of our public participation and democracy inquiry. In his stead, we welcome our new colleague, Maurice Golden, and offer him the opportunity to refer to any interests.

I declare that I am a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, which does some work on citizen participation, although I have not been involved in that thus far.

That is the most interesting declaration that I have heard in a very long while. Thank you for that.