[The Deputy Convener opened the meeting at 09:50]
Welcome, colleagues, to the ninth meeting of the Finance Committee this year. As you can see, our convener, Mike Watson, is not here this morning—I intimate his apologies. He is on constituency business, which gives us the opportunity to have a change of chair, so please bear with me. We also have apologies from Mr John Swinney and Mr Keith Raffan. The other members who are not here might join us later.