Education Committee, 08 Sep 2005

Meeting date: Thursday, September 8, 2005

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Interests

I call members to order and open the 14th meeting in 2005 of the Education Committee. According to the standing orders I have to take the chair, albeit with extreme brevity. For a terrible moment I thought that it might be the oldest member of the committee who had to take the chair, but happily that is not the case. While some politicians have a future, others have a past.

Virtually all of us who are present have made a declaration of interests in the past, so unless they have something to add colleagues need not do so again. However, I welcome Iain Smith as the new member of the committee and invite him to declare any relevant interests.

Thank you, deputy convener. I have no relevant interests to declare.