Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee Thursday 17 May 2018 Session 5 © Parliamentary copyright. Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Information on the Scottish Parliament’s copyright policy can be found on the website - www.parliament.scot or by contacting Public Information on 0131 348 5000 Thursday 17 May 2018 CONTENTS Col. ANNUAL REPORT ............................................................................................................................................... 1 STANDARDS, PROCEDURES AND PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE 9th Meeting 2018, Session 5 CONVENER Clare Haughey (Rutherglen) (SNP) DEPUTY CONVENER *Patrick Harvie (Glasgow) (Green) COMMITTEE MEMBERS *Tom Arthur (Renfrewshire South) (SNP) *Jamie Halcro Johnston (Highlands and Islands) (Con) *Elaine Smith (Central Scotland) (Lab) *Alexander Stewart (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) David Torrance (Kirkcaldy) (SNP) *attended CLERK TO THE COMMITTEE Katy Orr LOCATION The David Livingstone Room (CR6) 1 17 MAY 2018 2 The Deputy Convener: Thank you. As Scottish Parliament previously agreed, we now move into private session for item 2. Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee 10:00 Meeting continued in private until 10:44. Thursday 17 May 2018 [The Deputy Convener opened the meeting at 10:00] Annual Report The Deputy Convener (Patrick Harvie): Good morning and welcome to the ninth meeting in 2018 of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. Apologies have been received from Clare Haughey and David Torrance. We have two items on the agenda. Item 1 is consideration of our annual report. I did not see anything in the draft annual report that needs to be amended, but do members have any comments or suggestions for changes that they would like to see? As there are no comments, are we agreed to publish the annual report on 29 May? Members indicated agreement. This is the final edition of the Official Report of this meeting. It is part of the Scottish Parliament Official Report archive and has been sent for legal deposit. Published in Edinburgh by the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP All documents are available on For information on the Scottish Parliament contact the Scottish Parliament website at: Public Information on: www.parliament.scot Telephone: 0131 348 5000 Textphone: 0800 092 7100 Information on non-endorsed print suppliers Email: [email protected] is available here: www.parliament.scot/documents .