John Ajaka MLC, President of the Legislative Council of New South Wales and Vice-Chair of the CPA Executive Committee 2 • BEC marked Commonwealth Day 2020 by lodging a motion and posting a series of tweets highlighting the work of the Scotland Branch • Bill Bowman MSP was due to attend the CPA Public Accounts Committees Pan-Commonwealth Workshop in London (cancelled due to COVID-19) • BEC was due to attend the CPA BIMR Annual Conference in Malta in May (postponed due to COVID-19 - will take place virtually in September) • Margaret Mitchell MSP participated in a CPA virtual roundtable discussion on Responding to COVID-19 and parliamentary democracy post quarantine Other Commonwealth (non-CPA): • Deputy Presiding Officer Linda Fabiani MSP and Liam McArthur MSP (member of the BEC) met with the Hon.