Good morning and welcome to the first meeting in 2015 of the Welfare Reform Committee. I ask everyone to please make sure that mobile phones and other electronic devices are switched to silent or airplane mode.
We have apologies from Clare Adamson, who is ill. I send Clare our best wishes. She has been ill for a week or so and is clearly not getting over it very quickly.
We welcome our new members, Margaret McDougall and Annabel Goldie. Margaret will replace her Labour colleague, Ken Macintosh, and Annabel will replace Alex Johnstone. I take this opportunity to thank Ken and Alex for their work on the committee.
Agenda item 1 is declarations of interests. I invite our new members to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee. I remind members that any declarations should be brief but sufficiently clear to make clear to any listeners the nature of the interest.
Annabel, do you have anything to declare?
I have no relevant interests to declare.
Okay. Margaret?
I have no relevant interests to declare.
Thanks very much to you both and welcome to the committee. I hope that you enjoy your time on it.
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