Health and Sport Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Official Report 504KB pdf

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Interests

Good morning. I welcome members and the public to the 25th meeting of the Health and Sport Committee in 2013. As usual, I remind those present to switch off mobile phones, BlackBerrys and other wireless devices, which can often interfere with the sound system. Members of the public may have noticed that some members and officials are using tablet devices. That is instead of having hard copies of their papers.

We have received apologies from Richard Simpson. I welcome Malcolm Chisholm to the committee, as the Labour Party substitute. I also welcome Rhoda Grant, who joins the committee, replacing Drew Smith.

The first item on the agenda today is to give new members and substitutes an opportunity to declare any interests that are relevant to the work of the committee. I will invite them to do so in turn, starting with Rhoda Grant.

I do not think that I have any relevant interests to declare, but I make a voluntary declaration of my Unison membership.

I direct members to my entry in the register of members’ interests, but I do not believe that I have anything relevant to the committee to declare.

I would state what is in the written register of interests: I am a member of Unison and of the Educational Institute of Scotland.