Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Convener

*Finlay Carson (Galloway and West Dumfries) (Con)

Deputy convener

*Beatrice Wishart (Shetland Islands) (LD)

Committee members

*Karen Adam (Banffshire and Buchan Coast) (SNP)

*Alasdair Allan (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)

*Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green)

*Jim Fairlie (Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) (SNP)

*Kate Forbes (Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) (SNP)

*Rhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Lab)

*Rachael Hamilton (Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) (Con)

The following also participated:

Douglas Bell (Scottish Tenant Farmers Association)

Rob Clarke (Highlands and Islands Enterprise)

Gillian Martin (Minister for Energy and the Environment)

John McCulloch (Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs)

Grant McLarty (Scottish Government)

Grant Moir (Cairngorms National Park Authority)

Jeremy Moody (Central Association of Agricultural Valuers Scotland)

Theona Morrison (Scottish Rural Action)

Professor Sarah Skerratt (Royal Society of Edinburgh)

Professor Steven Thomson (Scotland’s Rural College)

Andrew Voas (Scottish Government)

Clerk to the committee

Emma Johnston