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I note from Malcolm Chisholm's response of 26 January to a question from Elaine Smith that the Executive will have spent around £954,000 over five years on the promotion of breastfeeding—it proposes to spend £230,000 this year.
I am delighted to tell the member that, with our new democracy in Scotland, such decisions are taken by our whole Scottish Parliament and that the convener will be appointed by this committee in due course.
We will certainly refer the paper to the new committee. We have previously indicated that the present committee would prefer to give the new committee a steer.
Oaths We now invite two new members to take the oath: the new member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Mr Brian Fitzpatrick, and the new member for Banff and Buchan, Mr Stewart Stevenson.