Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee [Draft]

Meeting date: Tuesday, February 20, 2024

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Convener

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the fifth meeting in 2024 of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee. We have received no apologies for our meeting.

As members will be aware, Kaukab Stewart has resigned as convener of the committee, following her appointment as Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development. For that reason, I am chairing this part of the meeting in my capacity as deputy convener. I take this opportunity to put on the record our thanks to Kaukab for her work, and I wish her well in her new role.

Under our first agenda item, the committee is invited to choose a new convener. The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish National Party are eligible for nomination as convener of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee.

Do we have any nominations for convener?

I echo your remarks about the previous convener.

I nominate Karen Adam.

Karen Adam was chosen as convener.

Congratulations, Karen. I hand over the chair to you.

Thank you so much. It is an absolute honour to serve as convener of the committee. I look forward to working with everybody over the next few weeks, months and—possibly—years.