Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee, 08 Oct 2008
Meeting date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Official Report
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Interests
I welcome colleagues to the 19th meeting of the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee in 2008. We are certainly meeting in interesting times and will keep abreast of events in London today. There are big concerns about the future of two of Scotland's major banks—HBOS and the Royal Bank of Scotland—which will, no doubt, feature in this morning's business.
The first item of business is to welcome Wendy Alexander to the committee and ask her whether she has any relevant interest to declare.
Thank you, convener. I am delighted to join the committee. My relevant interest is that I am a visiting professor in the business school at the University of Strathclyde.
Thank you for that, Wendy.
I was going to thank David Whitton for his contribution to the committee's work, but I will not bother doing that at the moment because he is here as a substitute for Marilyn Livingstone, who has some travel difficulties this morning—as do many people throughout Scotland, inevitably—and may join us later if she manages to get in from Fife. At that point, I will thank David for his contribution to the committee in his time as a member of it.
Thank you very much.