Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee

Meeting date: Thursday, December 10, 2020

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Interests

Good morning and welcome, everyone, to the 31st meeting in 2020 of the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee. We have received apologies this morning from Oliver Mundell MSP and Beatrice Wishart MSP. I welcome back to the committee Gordon Lindhurst MSP, as Oliver’s substitute. Do you have any relevant interests to declare?

We seem to be experiencing technical difficulties, so I will suspend briefly until we resolve the issues.

Good morning and welcome again, everyone, to the 31st meeting in 2020 of the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee. I apologise for our technical issues and late restart. We seem to be broadcasting okay now. Does Gordon Lindhurst have any relevant interests to declare?

My interests are set out in my entry in the register of members’ interests, and I have nothing to declare beyond that.

Thank you very much, Gordon.

Our first agenda item is an additional declaration of interests. I welcome Christine Grahame MSP, who replaces Annabelle Ewing MSP as a member of the committee. I take this opportunity to thank Annabelle Ewing for her very valuable and constructive contributions to the committee since she joined, in September 2018. I wish her well in the future.

I invite Christine Grahame to state whether she has any interests to declare.

I have no relevant interests to declare.