Education and Culture Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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Interests

Good morning. I welcome members to the 25th meeting in 2012 of the Education and Culture Committee. I remind members and those in the public gallery to ensure that all electronic devices, particularly mobile phones, are switched off at all times.

I welcome to the committee a new member, Colin Beattie. Apologies have been received from our deputy convener, Neil Findlay, and I welcome Mark Griffin as his substitute.

Under the first agenda item, I invite Colin Beattie to declare any registrable interests that are relevant to the committee’s remit.

I refer members to my entry in the register of interests and specifically, in view of the committee’s remit, to my role as trustee director of the National Mining Museum of Scotland.

Thank you.

As this is the first time that Mark Griffin has appeared at the committee as a committee substitute, does he wish to declare any registrable interests that are relevant to the committee’s remit?

Thank you, convener. I have no interests to declare.

Thank you both very much.