Local Government and Communities Committee

Convener

*Duncan McNeil (Greenock and Inverclyde) (Lab)

Deputy convener

*Alasdair Allan (Western Isles) (SNP)

Committee members

*Bob Doris (Glasgow) (SNP)

*Patricia Ferguson (Glasgow Maryhill) (Lab)

*David McLetchie (Edinburgh Pentlands) (Con)

*Mary Mulligan (Linlithgow) (Lab)

*Jim Tolson (Dunfermline West) (LD)

*John Wilson (Central Scotland) (SNP)

Committee substitutes

Brian Adam (Aberdeen North) (SNP)

Margaret Curran (Glasgow Baillieston) (Lab)

Alison McInnes (North East Scotland) (LD)

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con)

The following also participated:

John Blackwood (Private Rented Housing Forum)

Kennedy Foster (Council of Mortgage Lenders)

John Gell (Private Rented Housing Forum)

Russell Gunson (NUS Scotland)

Deborah Lovell (Law Society of Scotland)

David Middleton (Sustainable Communities (Scotland))

Katharine Sacks-Jones (Crisis)

Clerk to the committee

Susan Duffy