Good morning. I welcome members of the committee, the press and the public to this meeting of the Scottish Parliament's Audit Committee. I also welcome the Auditor General for Scotland and a galaxy of staff from Audit Scotland, of whom more later. I ask everyone present to ensure that their mobile phones and pagers are switched off. There are no apologies, so we have a full complement.
Item 1 is declarations of members' interests. The weather's impact on members' travel arrangements last week make it necessary for me to invite Willie Coffey MSP to declare any interests that he might have that are relevant to the work of the committee.
I have two interests to declare, as intimated in my entry in the register of members' interests. First, I currently serve as an elected local government councillor on East Ayrshire Council on London Road, Kilmarnock, for which I receive remuneration of between £15,000 and £20,000. Secondly, I own a small number of shares in Kilmarnock Football Club, which I do not believe to be a pecuniary interest but, nevertheless, it is very close to my heart.
Thank you, Mr Coffey. On the latter item, it rather depends on how much Kilmarnock extract from Rangers for one Mr Naismith.