Public Petitions Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 22, 2015

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Interests

Good morning and welcome to the 15th meeting in 2015 of the Public Petitions Committee. I remind all those present, including members, that mobile phones and BlackBerrys should be turned off completely, as they interfere with the sound system even when they are switched to silent. Apologies have been received from Hanzala Malik.

I welcome Michael McMahon, who replaces John Pentland as a member of the committee.

Agenda item 1 is a declaration of interests. In accordance with section 3 of the code of conduct, I invite Michael McMahon to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee’s remit. Any declaration should be brief but sufficiently detailed to make clear to any listener the nature of the interest.

Other than what is in my declaration in the register of members’ interests, I do not believe that there is anything that I require to state. As trade union issues tend to come up quite a lot in the committee, it might be worth mentioning that I am a member of the GMB trade union. There is nothing else.