Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Convener

*Finlay Carson (Galloway and West Dumfries) (Con)

Deputy convener

*Beatrice Wishart (Shetland Islands) (LD)

Committee members

*Karen Adam (Banffshire and Buchan Coast) (SNP)

*Alasdair Allan (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)

*Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green)

*Jim Fairlie (Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) (SNP)

*Kate Forbes (Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) (SNP)

*Rhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Lab)

*Rachael Hamilton (Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) (Con)

The following also participated:

Stuart Goodall (Confor)

David Harley (Scottish Environment Protection Agency)

Eleanor Kay (Scottish Land & Estates)

Ross Lilley (NatureScot)

Ross MacLeod (Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust)

Professor Davy McCracken (Scotland’s Rural College)

Professor Dave Reay (Edinburgh Climate Change Institute)

Euan Ross (Nature Friendly Farming Network)

Alastair Seaman (Woodland Trust Scotland)

Vicki Swales (RSPB Scotland)

Kirsty Tait (Food, Farming and Countryside Commission Scotland)

Clerk to the committee

Emma Johnston