Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Meeting date: Thursday, September 7, 2023

Interests

Good morning, and welcome to the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee’s 23rd meeting in 2023.

Our first agenda item is the declaration of interests as a result of membership change. I put on record again my thanks to Ben Macpherson, Alasdair Allan and Maurice Golden for their commitment to the committee, and I wish them well in their new roles. I give a warm welcome to Kate Forbes, Keith Brown and Alexander Stewart, who join the committee. I invite each of them to declare any relevant interests.

I do not believe that I have any relevant interests to declare.

I have none, either, but I am delighted to return to the committee. I sat on its predecessor committee for three years in the previous session, so I look forward to our work, convener.

I am not aware of any relevant interests, although, in the interests of transparency, I should say that my partner is the Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development.