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Yes, but special interest groups also inform MSPs who attend their meetings. If MSPs then want to do something with that information that is perfectly valid.
This issue was originally raised in the Equal Opportunities Committee and then in the conveners liaison group, which has asked us to consider how non-MSPs might become involved in the work of the Parliament's committees.Non-MSPs can be involved in a number of ways.
The problem is not whether the standards commissioner can consider complaints against former MSPs but that, if we include such provision in the bill, first we must seek to change our remit, which covers the conduct only of serving MSPs.
Will the SPCB acknowledge in its legacy paper that constituency case work is a vital and substantial component of the work of MSPs and seek to explore how appropriate staff and other resources can be made available to MSPs to enable them to undertake that task?
I am the director of the Scottish Association for Marine Science at Dunstaffnage. I am the Labour MSP for the Western Isles. I am the Green party MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife.