Public Petitions Committee, 03 Mar 2009

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Official Report 325KB pdf

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Interests

Good afternoon, everyone. I welcome the public, members of Parliament and parliamentary staff to the fourth meeting in 2009 of the Public Petitions Committee. I have received no apologies, although I know that one member has another meeting that clashes with this one. I hope that the member will attend later. All mobile phones and electronic devices should be switched off during the meeting.

Item 1 on the agenda is a declaration of interests by the new committee member. I welcome Anne McLaughlin to the Public Petitions Committee and, in accordance with section 3 of the "Code of Conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament" which has been issued by the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee, I invite her to declare any interests that are relevant to the remit of this committee.

I have no interests to declare other than those that are on my register of interests, which will be published shortly.