Interests
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am in the personally humiliating and embarrassing position of having to confess that I am the oldest committee member. It is in that capacity that I convene the initial part of the meeting.
I welcome all members, particularly the new members of Parliament, to the first meeting of the Justice Committee in the third session of the Scottish Parliament. I make my usual admonition that mobile phones and pagers should be switched off.
Today's business is largely procedural, so we should be able to rattle through it. There are no apologies.
The first agenda item is the declaration of members' interests. The clerks have issued a paper to members and have also issued a copy of the declaration of interests form that members completed for the Standards and Public Appointments Committee. It is necessary for each of us to make a further declaration for the record.
I shall start. I have no declarable interests with regard to the work of the Justice Committee.
I have no declarable interests in respect of the work of the Justice Committee.
I confirm that I do not have any declarable interests.
I have no declarable interests in respect of the work of this committee.
I have no declarable interests with regard to the work of this committee.
I also have no declarable interests.
I have no declarable interests.
I have no declarable interests.