European and External Relations Committee, 17 Nov 2009
Meeting date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Official Report
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Interests
Good morning everyone. I welcome you all to the 13th meeting of the European and External Relations Committee in 2009. I have received apologies from Sandra White and Jamie Hepburn. Colleagues will join me in congratulating Jamie, whose daughter, Rebecca Catherine, was born on 12 November. We all send our very best wishes to him. I can say from experience that his life will never be the same again.
As colleagues will be aware, we have received a resignation from Charlie Gordon, who has taken up the transport portfolio in the Labour Party. I am sure that colleagues would wish to join me in thanking Charlie for his contribution to the work of the committee in recent years and in wishing him well in his new role. Rhona Brankin is replacing Charlie Gordon. I welcome her and ask whether she has any interests that she would like to declare.
I am a member of the Scottish Co-operative Party, NFU Mutual and RSPB Scotland.
Thank you. That is now on the record.