Convener

*Christina McKelvie (Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) (SNP)

Deputy convener

*Alex Cole-Hamilton (Edinburgh Western) (LD)

Committee members

*Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Con)

*Willie Coffey (Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley) (SNP)

*Mary Fee (West Scotland) (Lab)

*David Torrance (Kirkcaldy) (SNP)

*Annie Wells (Glasgow) (Con)

Committee substitutes

Maurice Golden (West Scotland) (Con)

Jenny Marra (North East Scotland) (Lab)

The following also participated:

Mary Alexander (Unite the union)

Morven Brooks (Scottish Disability Equality Forum)

Superintendent Davie Duncan (Police Scotland)

Jatin Haria (Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights Scotland)

Juliet Harris (Together—Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights)

Parveen Khan (Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations Scotland)

Colin Macfarlane (Stonewall Scotland)

Gordon MacRae (Humanist Society Scotland)

Helen Martin (Scottish Trades Union Congress)

Alastair Pringle (Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland)

Rania Qusassi (Saheliya)

Bill Scott (Inclusion Scotland)

Clerk to the committee

Claire Menzies