Equal Opportunities Committee

Meeting date: Thursday, January 30, 2014

Official Report 428KB pdf

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Witness Expenses

Welcome to the second meeting in 2014 of the Equal Opportunities Committee. Please switch off any electronic devices or set them to flight mode.

We will start with introductions. We are supported at the table by the clerking and research staff, official reporters and broadcasting services, and around the room by security officers. I am Margaret McCulloch, the committee convener.

Madainn mhath. I am a Highlands and Islands MSP.

I am a member for North East Scotland.

I am the deputy convener and the MSP for Edinburgh Central.

I am the MSP for Glasgow Shettleston.

I am an MSP for Central Scotland.

I am an MSP for North East Scotland.

Thank you. Today’s first agenda item is witness expenses. In keeping with the usual practice, members are invited to delegate to me, as convener, responsibility for arranging for the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body to pay, under rule 12.4.3 of the standing orders, any expenses incurred by witnesses in our inquiries into female genital mutilation and into fathers and parenting. Do members agree to that?

Members indicated agreement.