Edinburgh Tram (Line Two) Bill Committee, 29 Jun 2004

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Official Report 67KB pdf

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Interests

Welcome to the inaugural meeting of the Edinburgh Tram (Line Two) Bill Committee. I ask members to switch off their mobile phones and pagers.

Apparently, I am the oldest committee member, so under rule 12.1.6 of the standing orders, I am to chair the meeting for the first two agenda items. Marilyn Livingstone has tendered her apologies as she is not very well.

First are declarations of interests—I will start. I am not aware that I have any interests in respect of the Edinburgh Tram (Line Two) Bill.

I have no interests to declare in respect of the bill.

I have no registered interests to declare. However, in my capacity as member of the Scottish Parliament for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, I have had discussions with Transport Initiatives Edinburgh Ltd on congestion charging. I also have links with the Borders railway project. At no stage did the tram projects come up in those discussions. I thought that it might be useful, however, to place that in the Official Report.

I am not aware that I have any interests to declare.