Cross-Party Group on Poverty th 28 April 2023 10am-11am Minute Present MSPs Pam Duncan Glancy MSP, Beatrice Wishart MSP Invited guests Catherine MacNeil, Catriona Mallows, Polly Chapman Non-MSP Group Members Ashley Mclean, Ruth Boyle, Glen Nixon, Jill Marchbank, Susan Lyons, Ruth Wilkinson, Anne McCormack, Jayne Jones, Florence Burke, Leah Duncan-Karrim, Raheel Ashraf, Taegan Lewis, Mairi McCallum, Susan Murray, Zoe Meldrum, Lucy Higginson, Cassy Rutherford, Selma Augestad, Rob McDowall, Caroline Hastings, Debbie Horne, Eilidh MacDonald, Jo McGilvray, Ellie Wagstaff, Susan McKellar, Lucy Miller, John Halliday, Gemma Richardson, Felicia Szloboda, Rhiannon Sims, David Stewart, Mike Corbett, Michael Marley, Lindsay Graham, Kimberley Somerside, Paul Spicker, Tilly Robinson-Miles, Lucy Daniels, Stacey Cuthbertson, Caroline Berry, Snow Curtis-Kolu, Cllr Nairn McDonald, Jane Callaghan Apologies Monica Lennon MSP, Miles Briggs MSP, Eileen Cawley, Keith Robson, Andrea Bradley, Emma Jackson, Bill Scott Agenda item 1: Introduction and Overview of Inquiry Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP (PDG) opens the call beginning by calling praise to for the stigma enquiry noting interest from SSJS committee and the Presiding Officer’s team.