That the Parliament welcomes the David Hume Institute’s latest research on the diversity of thought among Scotland’s top charity leaders; recognises what it sees as the social and economic importance of embedding diversity and inclusion strategies and the work done to advance them in building a fair and prosperous Scotland; understands that the report considers the educational, gender, ethnic, age and professional diversity of the leaders of Scotland’s top 300 charities by income from the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR); notes what it sees as the diversity of organisations within the charity sector and their significant influence and resources, with, it understands, a combined income of over £13 billion, and each organisation's legally binding commitment to public benefit; reluctantly welcomes the report's key findings that just 34% of top charity leaders are women and just 2% are from an ethnic minority background, which it considers shows that the charity sector has a long way to go to represent the communities that it serves; understands that an unintended consequence of the creation of the new charitable status of Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) has been less requirement for transparency about who runs the organisation, and that businesses are often subject to more requirement for transparency than charities; endorses the Institute’s recommendation for OSCR's powers to be extended to create a publicly searchable register of charity trustees, which it considers would improve transparency to ensure public benefit, with exemptions for organisations with highly sensitive charitable purposes, and congratulates the Institute on launching the report at an online webinar on 9 February 2022 with experienced third sector CEOs and the trustees, Manish Joshi and Theresa Shearer.