Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee, 02 Oct 2007

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Official Report 97KB pdf

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Interests

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We cut it fine, but we managed to start the meeting at bang on a quarter past 2.

Welcome to the first meeting of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee, in the third session of the Scottish Parliament. I ask members to switch off their phones—I will switch mine off first—so that we are not interrupted during our proceedings. We have received no apologies.

Item 1 is declarations of interests. I am a trade union member and a member of various charities and other bodies that have no impact on the committee's work.

I have no interests to declare that would affect my work as a member of the committee.

I have declared various interests in the register of members' interests and I have nothing to add to them.

I have no interests to declare that would impact on the committee's activities.

I have no relevant interests to declare.

I am not aware of any relevant interests that would impact on my work in the committee.