Cross-Party Group on Animal Welfare Minute Friday December 9 at 2pm Present MSPs Christine Grahame MSP (Convenor) Colin Smyth MSP (Deputy Convenor) Stevenson C (Collette), MSP Chapman M (Maggie), MSP White T (Tess), MSP Non-MSP Group Members Coe Karen, Secretary Alice Palombo Ferdy Willans Ross MacLeod Dew C (Carol) Helene Mauchlen Nicola Gunn Richard Woodward Caroline Robinson Millward, Jordon Ed Hayes Adam Reed Caroline Farrell Jane Washington-Evans, Anti-Snaring Keith Marley Stewart Donald Mike Flynn SSPCA Paul Reynolds The NEW ARC, HART Wildlife Rescue Elspeth Stirling Scottish badgers Freddy Bowen Ross Ewing Antonia Ganser Brulisauer, Natalie Harney Stirling, Jane Peter Clark (Scotland) Graeme Amro Hussain (THL UK) Edna Elliot-McColl 1 Ramos, Susana Libby Kirsty Jenkins OneKind Patricia Colville Zofia Bekas Apologies Marie McNair MSP Debra Torrance Ariane Burgess MSP Katy Clark Simon Wild Anti-Snaring Romaine Pizzey BVA Rona Mackay MSP Siobhain Brown MSP Mark Ruskell MSP Jake Swindells, Countryside Alliance Rhona O’Malley ARW Nigel Miller Minutes agreed – Colin Smyth MSP Agenda item 1 Presentation by Ross Macleod, Head of Policy (Scotland) Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Presentation PDF available on request.