 Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the 21st meeting in 2017 of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. A gender item 1 today is a declaration of interest. Our first item of business is to invite our new member, Claire Baker, and welcome to the committee to declare any interests. Thank you, convener. I don't have any registered interests that are of relevance to the committee. Claire Baker joins the committee in place of Daniel Johnson. Agenda item 2 is for the committee to agree to take item 4 in private. This is an item for the committee to consider a draft call for evidence and further briefing regarding its inquiry into sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct. Do the members agree to take this item in private? We move on to agenda item 3, and it is for the committee to consider an annual update on cross-party groups' compliance with the code of conduct. There are currently 94 cross-party groups and members will see from the report that compliance with the code is very high. I would like to invite members to make comments about the report if you have any. 94 is a tremendous amount of cross-party groups. That shows the engagement that we have with organisations and individuals. I note from the report that there are a number of them who are making slight infringements, but nothing too dramatic. In reality, they should be commended by what they are achieving and the ones who need to be assisted or given a little bit more support and advice about what they should be doing and should not be doing. We have the opportunity to do that, but I believe that that is a very good story. I am delighted to see that the majority of them are all complying and fulfilling the role and engaging with communities, individuals and organisations because that is so vitally important when we have a CPG organisation like we have in this Parliament. I agree that there is nothing serious that requires action. On a number of occasions, the committee has looked at the question of the amount of external membership that some CPGs have had. There is not a hard and fast rule about it, but we have been encouraging cross-party groups to cast a net reasonably wide. I suggest that, for those who still have a very low level of external membership, we might just write to them and ask whether that is something that they are looking to address and what actions they have taken. While I appreciate that the annual report is public, because it is part of the papers for this meeting, I do not know if it would be helpful to be shared the report with the cross-party groups themselves. If they can maybe see the comparisons in the areas where they are not performing as well as others, it might make it clear that they could take action to address that. It might also be having looked at some of the groups. Do you know that some of the groups have more members attending than what they are actually registering down as external? As I think, that might be helpful to highlight that point to them that they could maybe be more accurate and encourage people who come along to those meetings to become formal members. Okay, thank you very much for that. Could the committee then agree to write, as Patrick suggests, to the conveners about their external membership and encouraging certain groups to increase that and also to share the report with the conveners of cross-party groups and to highlight where there are areas of better practice? Thank you very much. That ends the public part of the meeting and we will now, as agreed, move into private session.