Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Meeting date: Thursday, September 7, 2023

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Interests

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?

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.

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.