Cross-Party Group on Poverty th 26 June 2023 10am-11am Minute Present: MSPs Pam Duncan Glancy MSP, Beatrice Wishart MSP, Paul O’Kane MSP Invited guests Ellie Wagstaff, Hannah MacCulloch Non-MSP Group Members Ashley Mclean (PA), Ruth Boyle (PA), Jaynie Mitchell, Sarah Rogers - Families Outside, Thomas Mulvey (Marie Curie), Danielle Ramage, Susan McKellar, Hanna McCulloch, Maddy Kirkman, Craig Samuel, Susan Lyons, Paul Spicker, David Kelly (CTA), Tara Lillis (NASUWT), Emma Jackson (Christians Against Poverty), Glen Nixon, Lorna Kettles, David Petrie, Lynda Perkins, Jayne Jones, Jamie Simpson, Catriona Melville, Maria Marshall, Gemma Richardson, Bill Scott, Keith Robson, Robert McGeachy, Ellie Wagstaff, Lucy Higginson, Louise Brady, Stephen Sinclair, Laura Robertson, Selma Augestad, Annie McCormack, Marie Ward, Jill Marchbank, Zahada Safdar, Eileen Cawley, Calum Mackay, Kim Dams, Davie Donaldson, Jennifer Forsyth, Tom Ockendon, David Stewart Apologies Monica Lennon MSP Agenda item 1: Introduction and new convenor Beatrice Wishart MSP (BW) opens the call by noting that, due to a change in portfolio, Pam Duncan Glancy MSP is not able to continue in the role of Convenor of the CPG on Poverty.