Chamber and committees

We move to questions from the committee.

The motto of a local music charity, which has been going for more than 20 years now, has always been: “It’s youth work we’re doing—but with stealth. Nobody knows that.” It is all about getting people to go along and, for example, play guitar or make films, and its approach is that such things do not need to be about mental health. Instead, it should be about giving people the right and the opportunity to choose to be involved in something.

Ben Macpherson has the final question.

That has exhausted the committee’s questions. Thank you very much for a really informative session.

Does anyone else want to comment—fairly briefly, if you can?

Mark, do you want to come back in?

Do you have any thoughts, Morvern?

We will move to the next questions.

After Murray Dawson has commented, we will go back to Maurice Golden and I will then bring in Ben Macpherson, who has a supplementary question.

Certainly not, if it’s you that’s doing it.

Good morning, and a warm welcome to the 14th meeting in 2023 of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee.

As a result of a membership change, our first agenda item is a declaration of interests. Before that, I give apologies from Donald Cameron, the deputy convener, who cannot be with us today. I echo Donald Cameron’s comments from last week when he was in the chair with regard to the contribution of Sarah Boyack on the committee and we wish her all the best for her new parliamentary duties.

I invite Neil Bibby, who joins the committee, to make a declaration of interests.