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Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Meeting date: Thursday, September 7, 2023


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The Convener (Martin Whitfield)

Welcome, everyone, to the 14th meeting in 2023 of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. I welcome a significant surge in new members to the committee.

We will start with my inviting members to make any declarations of appropriate interests. I welcome Stephen Kerr to the committee. Do you have any relevant interests to declare?

Stephen Kerr (Central Scotland) (Con)

Convener, it is wonderful to be here and serving under your convenership.

Yes, I have a number of relevant matters to declare to you and the public. Before I was elected as a member of the Scottish Parliament, I had a number of consultancies with different sectors. All the details are published in my entry in the register of members’ interests.

I would also like to notably mention that I am a director of WhistleblowersUK, which is an organisation that is dedicated to supporting whistleblowers and to changing the law in relation to how they are treated.

Thank you, Stephen. I now turn to Ivan McKee. Welcome to the committee.

I have no relevant interests pertaining to the work of this committee.

Excellent. I turn to Evelyn Tweed. Welcome to the committee.

Thanks, convener. I am very happy to be here and to be part of the committee. I have nothing to declare.

Thank you very much. Finally, I welcome Annie Wells to the committee.

Thank you, convener. I have no relevant interests to declare. I look forward to working with you and the other committee members.

The Convener

Excellent. Thank you.

On behalf of the committee, I take this opportunity to thank Bob Doris, Emma Harper, Alexander Stewart and Edward Mountain for their service prior to the new members joining. I inform you that I wrote to the former members over recess to thank them for their work.