Convener

*Joe FitzPatrick (Dundee City West) (SNP)

Deputy convener

*Kevin Stewart (Aberdeen Central) (SNP)

Committee members

*James Dornan (Glasgow Cathcart) (SNP)

*Anne McTaggart (Glasgow) (Lab)

*Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con)

*John Pentland (Motherwell and Wishaw) (Lab)

David Torrance (Kirkcaldy) (SNP)

The following also participated:

Stuart Crickmar (Clackmannanshire Council)

Dr David Farquharson (NHS Lothian)

Emma Gray (Scottish Public Services Ombudsman)

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

Bob Jack (Stirling Council)

Niki Maclean (Scottish Public Services Ombudsman)

Jim Martin (Scottish Public Services Ombudsman)

Hugh Robertson (Angus Council)

Gavin Whitefield (North Lanarkshire Council)

Clerk to the committee

Eugene Windsor