Good morning and welcome to the 23rd meeting in 2015 of the Health and Sport Committee. I ask everyone in the room to switch off their mobile phones, as they can interfere with the sound system. As you can see, some members are using tablets instead of hard copies of papers. We have received apologies from our convener Duncan McNeil, which means that I, as the committee’s deputy convener, will chair today’s meeting.
Agenda item 1 is a declaration of interests. At this point, I welcome Malcolm Chisholm to the committee—it is great to have him here—and put on record our thanks to Richard Simpson, who I believe has run up a total of 10 years of working on health in the Scottish Parliament.
I invite Malcolm Chisholm to declare any interests that might be relevant to the committee’s work.
I usually declare my membership of the trade unions the Educational Institute of Scotland and Unison.
Thank you very much.