Environment and Rural Development Committee, 26 Oct 2005
Meeting date: Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Official Report
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Interests
Good morning. Richard Lochhead has informed us that, due to train issues, he will get here just before 11 o'clock.
Elaine Smith has been appointed to the committee to replace Karen Gillon. The members' code of conduct states that it is good practice for members to declare interests relevant to the remit of a committee at the first meeting of the committee that they attend. As this is the first meeting of the Environment and Rural Development Committee that Elaine Smith is attending, I invite her to declare any relevant interests.
Thank you, convener. I am pleased to join the committee.
I am a member of the Transport and General Workers Union, the Co-operative party, the General Teaching Council for Scotland and the United Nations Development Fund for Women. I also received financial support during the passage of my member's bill—which became the Breastfeeding etc (Scotland) Act 2005—from Unison, the Royal College of Midwives and Boots, the chemists, and help in kind from Mike Dailly of the Govan Law Centre. I am not sure whether all of those are relevant, but they might be.
They will be on the record from now on. Thank you for that lengthy set of interests.