Finance Committee, 20 Sep 2005
Meeting date: Tuesday, September 20, 2005
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Interests
I welcome everyone, including the press and the public, to the 20th meeting in 2005 of the Finance Committee. As usual, I remind members to turn off their pagers and mobile phones. We have received apologies from Wendy Alexander, who will not be with us.
We asked the Deputy Minister for Finance and Parliamentary Business to appear before us today to talk about the efficient government time-releasing technical notes, but late last week he had to pull out. The intention now is to have him speak to us at the start of our next meeting.
Alasdair Morgan has resigned from the committee and has been replaced by John Swinney. On behalf of the committee, I thank Alasdair for all his work as deputy convener and welcome John as his replacement.
Anthony Appiah-Yeboah, who is the deputy editor of the Parliament of Ghana's Hansard, is with us today—he is on my left, next to Judith Henderson. He is visiting the Scottish Parliament.
Under agenda item 1, I invite John Swinney to declare any relevant registrable interests.
Thank you for your welcome, convener. I draw members' attention to my entry in the register of interests. I have no other relevant matters to bring to the committee's attention.