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It tends to be a half-day seminar, which is held in the Parliament and is run jointly between the STUC and the committee. Feedback from MSPs and from the STUC on previous seminars has been pretty good.
I welcome our witnesses, who are John Swinney MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth, and Andrew Sinclair, policy officer with the Scottish Government’s elections team.
I am delighted to welcome to the committee Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy; and Yvonne Strachan, head of the Scottish Government’s equality unit.
Additionally briefing in parliament from the, then, Minister for Community Safety, Fergus Ewing MSP, was offered to all MSPs, as well as individual briefings for all party leaders, in March 2011.