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My first task is to ask all members to declare their interests. I will start. My wife, Sheena Welsh, has been an Angus councillor for 23 years and she was re-elected in May. That is my only declarable interest for this committee.
Other than saying that I regularly have to suffer the vagaries of ScotRail when coming into Edinburgh, I have no interests to declare.
I will declare that I am a member of the Law Society of Scotland, should that be relevant to anything that comes before the committee.
The only interests that I have to declare come under the miscellaneous section in the register of members' interests. My wife is a councillor on West Lothian Council and I am a member of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association. The Livingston constituency Labour party has constituency development agreements with the trade unions, the TSSA and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.
I have nothing that has to be registered officially in the register of members' interests but, to be on the safe side, I will say that I am a member of the GMB, which has a substantial membership in local government.
I have no declarable interests.
I have no declarable interests.
To play safe, I will go through the lot. I am a member of the Transport and General Workers Union and the Educational Institute of Scotland. I am a member of the Scottish Educational Research Association and its British counterpart the Association for Science Education. I am also a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds committee for Scotland.
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