Convener

*Joe FitzPatrick (Dundee City West) (SNP)

Deputy convener

*Kevin Stewart (Aberdeen Central) (SNP)

Committee members

*Anne McTaggart (Glasgow) (Lab)

*Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con)

*John Pentland (Motherwell and Wishaw) (Lab)

David Torrance (Kirkcaldy) (SNP)

The following also participated:

Jamie Hepburn (Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) (SNP) (Committee Substitute)

Professor Richard Kerley (Queen Margaret University)

Derek Mackay (Minister for Local Government and Planning)

Joe Simpson (Local Government Association)

Dr Stephen Sinclair (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Clerk to the committee

Eugene Windsor