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It was projected that, at its previous level, the feed-in tariff for photovoltaics would, within a very short time, add something like £26 to the average electricity bill of everyone across the country.
It is hard to see where the protection of schools and colleges has been and harder still when we find out in the latest outturn figures that there has been a £165 million underspend in the education budget.
I nominate Meghan Gallacher to be deputy convener.Meghan Gallacher was chosen as deputy convener. I welcome Meghan Gallacher to her new role. Thank you.
I put on record the committee’s thanks and appreciation to Shona for her valuable contribution to our work this year. I welcome our new member, John Mason MSP, to the committee.
I thank Emma Harper for her contribution to the committee’s work over the past 18 months. We wish her well in her new role on the Health and Sport Committee.
Agenda item 1 is a declaration of interests. I welcome our new member, Bill Bowman, to the committee and invite him to make any relevant declarations of interest.
We are joined in the public gallery by the Speaker of the New Zealand Parliament, the Rt Hon David Carter MP, and we are very pleased to have him with us this morning.