 I would like to welcome everyone to the first meeting of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. I remind everyone present to turn off your mobile phones and other electronic devices and to say how pleased I am to welcome particularly new members of Parliament to the committee. You will all be aware that it is one of the endearing conventions of our committee structure, but the oldest member gets to do this first part of the meeting before we elect a convener, but we will now move to that job. Before we do, I would invite everyone to declare their declaration of interest, as it were. I will start. I am a farmer and a landowner, and I think that that is about all that I need to tell or all that I need to declare. I have no specific declaration of interest for this committee, but I have a published interest that will be published shortly by the Parliament. I do not think that I have any relevant interest to declare. I do not think that I have any relevant interest to declare. I do not think that I have any relevant interest to declare. I do not know of the particularly relevant, but I am a shareholder of two private limited companies. I am a director of both of those, but non-salary and non-working. Both relate to the retail sector, so just in terms of the broad scope of the committee, I thought that it was important just to make a full declaration of that. I do not think that I have any other than to announce that I am a councillor with Perth and Canoes Council. That may have some relevance, but other than that, no. All right. That is terrific. Thank you very much. The next item of business is to elect a convener. You will all have read paper 2, which outlines the process. You will all be aware that this will be a member of the SNP as decided by Parliament already. Can I seek nominations for that convenership, please? I will nominate Clare Adamson. Thank you very much. There are no other nominations. I welcome Clare to the post of convener of this committee. Clare, over to you. Thank you very much to the committee for selecting me to be the convener going forward. As you can probably tell, I am struggling a bit today with my voice, so hopefully I will be able to get through the meeting without too much problems. The third item of business on the agenda today is the choice of a deputy convener, and the Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish Green Party are eligible for nomination as deputy convener. I understand that Patrick Harvie has the nomination of his party for the post, and I would like to nominate Patrick as deputy convener if the committee has agreed. Good point. Thank you. Patrick Harvie is opposed to his deputy convener as well. Thank you very much. The fourth item on the agenda today is the discussion of the work programme going forward. The last committee produced a legacy paper that has been circulated for information to members of the committee. We are also aware that there will be a requirement for this committee to consider the proposed changes to titles and remits of several mandatory committees, and the Presiding Officer has written to the committee regarding that issue. What we propose is that we agree to hold a business planning day towards the end of summer recess at which the committee can discuss in more detail the remit and future work of the committee. Is that agreeable? We will let the clerks contact us during the summer to see if we can agree a date for that towards the end of August. It would be hoped that we would be able to to the commissioner and perhaps the Presiding Officer take at least part of that date going forward. Is there any items of business that the committee would wish to raise today that might be included in the business planning day? Not specifically in relation to our business planning day, but I am aware that other committees are also looking to schedule business planning days. The committees whose remits we are going to consider, I am aware that we are being asked to consider that only in September after we come back from the summer recess. I wonder if there is a way of signalling to the committees whose remits are likely to change that that is something they can consider. I am a member of the finance committee, which is one of the committees that is likely to have its remit expanded. I think that there is a sense that some of those committees are being constrained in the business planning that they can undertake until their remits have been changed. Is there a way that we can give a clear signal that they should be looking at the wider remits that they expect to take on when they are looking at their work plans? That is a valid point. We do have a meeting just before summer recess, so we were planning to meet on the last Thursday. If that is what I will do, I will write to the conveners of the other committees to seek their guidance and say that if they feel that that is something that we should discuss on that day, that would give us an opportunity to perhaps deal with some of those issues. Daniel, did you, Mr Johnson? I think that it is right that we discuss in more detail when we have more time, but I would just like to register my thanks to the outgoing committee for the legacy report that they have provided. I think that there are a number of issues highlighted, which I think provide us with some very good points as to what we should be looking at in the coming months, and if not, use. That is a very valid point. It has been a very successful committee of the Parliament over the previous sessions and something that we would want to continue in that work. If there are no other suggestions for the work programme going forward and no other comments, I think that we can move to close the meeting. That is acceptable. Thank you very much to the committee for the attendance today. I look forward to working with you all in the future.