Education, Culture and Sport Committee, 20 Sep 2000

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 20, 2000

Official Report 156KB pdf

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New Members

Good morning. Members will be aware that Karen Gillon and Lewis Macdonald have resigned from the committee. Karen has done so for pleasant reasons, and Lewis for ones that are perhaps not so pleasant. We wish both of them well and thank them for their efforts on the committee.

I am pleased to say that the two vacancies have now been filled, by Cathy Jamieson and Johann Lamont, both of whom I welcome to the committee this morning. I hope that they will enjoy their time with us—I said that with a straight face. I ask them to say whether they have any declarable interests, as members are requested to do at their first committee meeting.

I declare everything that is listed under my name in the register of interests. I am a member of, and am supported by, the Co-operative Party, and I am a member of the Transport and General Workers Union. I have no additional interests to declare that would affect my work on the committee.

I, too, am a member of the T & G and am supported by the Co-operative Party—I do not know whether this is a takeover bid. I understood that this was a non-controversial committee.

I am also a member of the Educational Institute of Scotland and have been a teacher for more than 20 years. I am married to a councillor on Glasgow City Council—there may be a connection at some level between that and the work of the committee, as education is a local authority matter.

I cannot comment on where you received your information, but time will tell whether this is a non-controversial committee.