Local Government and Transport Committee, 05 Oct 2004

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 5, 2004

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Interests

Good afternoon. I welcome members of the committee, the public and the press to today's meeting of the Local Government and Transport Committee. The main item on the agenda is evidence taking for our review of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001, but we will quickly deal with two other agenda items before I introduce the first witnesses.

Agenda item 1 is a declaration of interests. Fergus Ewing is a new member of the committee and is attending his first meeting of the committee. I welcome him; I am sure that he will make an energetic contribution to our work, as he has done to that of other parliamentary committees. I look forward to working with him in the forthcoming period. I also thank Bruce McFee, whom Fergus Ewing has replaced, for his work on the committee. I invite Fergus Ewing to declare any relevant interests.

Thank you for that warm and enthusiastic welcome, which I reciprocate to all committee members. I have no interests to declare.