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Finance and Constitution Committee 26 September 2018 Finance and Constitution Committee 26 September 2018Interests Interests Good morning and welcome to the 23rd meeting in 2018 of the Finance and Constitution Committee.
We have received apologies from Marie McNair.Ahead of each meeting, we notify non-committee members of petitions that we will be discussing and on which they have expressed an interest. We have not been advised of any members joining us today.I welcome all the attendees in the public gallery.
Transport Scotland Statistics Sir David Norgrove, the chair of the UK Statistics Authority has today expressed “concern” about Transport Scotland’s “selective use of unpublished data” in a news release on the Aberdeen western peripheral route last month.
British Sign Language Inquiry Agenda item 2 is an evidence session following publication of the committee’s report on the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015, which was published on 26 September. I refer members to papers 1 and 2.
I say to those people in the public gallery, who live and breathe that trauma every day, that it is to them that we owe the most credit in getting to where we are today; it is their relentless campaigning to put victims first that has finally paid off.
Last night on STV, Ruth Davidson repeated the fiction that, under the new two-child limit for tax credits, a woman only has to write her name and tick a box to prove that she has had a subsequent child as a result of rape.
Like so many others across the chamber and across the country, I express my gratitude for all that Jeane did over the course of her life—for her service, her dedication, her compassion and her humanity.