Chamber and committees

Yes.

Thanks for that clarification.

Good morning, and welcome to the 16th meeting in 2022 of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee. We have received no apologies.

I welcome to the committee a new member, Rachael Hamilton, who replaces Alexander Stewart as one of our Scottish Conservative members. I thank Alexander Stewart for his valuable contribution to the committee’s work over this parliamentary year and his contribution to the work of the predecessor Equalities and Human Rights Committee. We look forward to working with Rachael.

Our first agenda item is to ask Rachael Hamilton to make a declaration of interests.

Pam Duncan-Glancy is next.

To close on this question, I call Pam Duncan-Glancy. Please be very quick, and say who you want to answer.

I will move on to Rachael Hamilton.

We have several more sessions to come. We are not even halfway through the sessions. I know that you are new to the committee, but the committee has agreed on a range of future evidence sessions, which we can discuss in private.

We are going to have to move on—

Can I bring in Fulton MacGregor first? He has not been in yet and we are really pushed for time. Is that okay or is your question a follow-up?

Thank you all very much. That point of consensus across different points of view is perhaps a good place to end, so thank you for that, Lucy.

I thank all the witnesses. The session took longer than you had agreed to, so I thank you for bearing with us. We have covered a huge amount of ground.

I will suspend in order to change witnesses and for a 10-minute comfort break.