Procedures Committee, 23 Jan 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 23, 2001

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Interests

Good morning and welcome to the first meeting of the Procedures Committee in 2001. I wish you all a belated happy new year and extend a particular welcome to new members who have joined the committee.

The first item on the agenda is a declaration of interests. I invite any of the new members who feel that they have anything relevant to declare to do so now.

I have no interests to declare.

I have no interests to declare.

I do not know whether I need to declare this, but I should probably do so just to be on the safe side. I am a Deputy Presiding Officer; there may be times when that is helpful, but there may also be other times when it is not. I ask the committee to bear that in mind.

We shall bear that in mind, but we will not get involved in any esoteric discussion about the helpfulness or otherwise of Deputy Presiding Officers.

Now that Frank McAveety has arrived, all the committee's members are here. If you have any interests to declare, Frank, this is your opportunity to do so.

I am a member of the Educational Institute of Scotland and the Transport and General Workers Union. I am also board director of the Arches Theatre Company.

I do not think that any of that sounds particularly threatening.