Convener

*Joe FitzPatrick (Dundee City West) (SNP)

Deputy convener

*Kevin Stewart (Aberdeen Central) (SNP)

Committee members

*James Dornan (Glasgow Cathcart) (SNP)

*Anne McTaggart (Glasgow) (Lab)

*Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con)

*John Pentland (Motherwell and Wishaw) (Lab)

David Torrance (Kirkcaldy) (SNP)

The following also participated:

Rosaleen Brown (Jobcentre Plus)

Hugh Cairns (Scottish Mental Health Co-operative and Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health)

Ken Dunbar (Aberlour Childcare Trust)

Katie Hutton (Skills Development Scotland)

Andrew Laing (Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland)

Danny Logue (Skills Development Scotland)

Neil McFarlane (Fife Fire and Rescue Service)

Hugh O’Donnell (Black and Ethnic Minority Infrastructure in Scotland)

Dr Marsha Scott (Engender)

Duncan Thorp (Social Enterprise Scotland)

Clerk to the committee

Eugene Windsor