 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the first meeting of session 6 of the Economy and Fair Work Committee. I'm Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlodien North and Musselborough. As the oldest member of the committee, I have the pleasure of convening this meeting for the first two items of business. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome everybody, and I look forward to working with you all on this committee. Before we move to the first item on the agenda, I would like to remind everyone present to switch mobile phones to silent. I note that no apologies have been received. To move to agenda 1. The first agenda item requires each of us to declare any interest we have relevant to the work of this committee. Background information is provided in the declaration of interest paper, which is paper 1. I will declare my interest first, and since this committee covers tourism, I will mention that I am a trustee director of the National Mining Museum of Scotland. I will now go round other members in alphabetical order, and I will simply call out your name and give you the opportunity to declare your interest as necessary. I will call Clare Baker. I would like to declare that I am a member of Unite, the trade union, and I am also a member of the co-operative party. I am also elected as a Labour and co-operative party MSP. I refer members to my entry in the register of members' interests, and specifically I declare an interest as an owner and manager of property, including agricultural, residential and commercial lettings, recreational and sporting usage and forestry, as a shareholder in a construction development and house building group, and a renewable energy company and as the holder of remunerated positions in companies related to those areas. Thank you. I will call Jimmy Halcro Johnston. Thank you, convener. There is no specific relation to the work of this committee, but I am a partner in a farming business of Jay Halcro Johnston and Sons in Orkney and own a number of properties. Thank you. I will call Fiona Hyslop. For the purposes of this committee, I just want to note that I was the economy secretary of a work secretary in the Scottish Government from February 2020 to May 2021. Thank you. I will call Gordon MacDonald. Thank you, convener. I have no relevant interests that I need to declare. However, I just want to mention a part of Historic Environment Scotland, now that we have the tourism brief as well. Thank you. I will call Lorna Slater. Per my register of interests, I recently worked as Orbersol Marine Support, which is a vital energy company, and received my final page during my time as an MSP. I am also the trustee of the Edinburgh Remakery, which is a social enterprise. I am a member of it. Thank you. Colin Smyth. Thank you. Can I declare that, although there are only voluntary parts of my declaration of interest, that I am a member of the GMB trade union, a member of the Unite trade union, I am also a member of the co-operative party as a Scottish Labour and co-operative party MSP. Thank you. Finally, I will call Michelle Thomson. Good morning, everybody. I, too, refer members to my register of interests. I receive income from residential biotelect properties, and I am also a shareholder in a property management company, but only receive a benefit in kind in the form of life cover but no other income. As a former MP, I have been asked to continue in as a role as an ambassador for a Westminster all-party parliamentary group for fair business banking, for which I receive no income. Thank you. I will now move on to agenda item 2. That is our task to choose a convener. The procedure is explained in the choice of convener paper, which is paper 2. The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish Labour Party are eligible for nomination as convener of this committee. Can I have a nomination from Scottish Labour? Could I nominate Claire Baker as convener? Thank you. Do we agree to choose Claire Baker as our convener? The one descents. I congratulate Claire Baker on her appointment, and I will simply vacate the chair and hand over to her. Thank you very much, Colin. I thank everybody for giving me your support to be convener of this important committee. I am looking forward to the role. As we move through the pandemic, there is obviously a huge impact on our economy and on our wellbeing. The committee has a big part to play in building Scotland's recovery and working with members across the province. I require to appoint a deputy convener. It has been agreed by the Parliament that only members of the Scottish National Party are eligible for nominations as deputy convener, so I invite members to make a nomination. Can I nominate Colin Beattie as the deputy convener of this committee? Thank you, Gordon. Has everyone agreed with that nomination? That's great, thank you very much. I look forward to working with you, Colin. I'm sure that we'll have an interesting session ahead of us. The fourth item on agenda is the legacy paper. The smart which comes from the former economy, energy and fair work committee who were in session 5. The committee has been asked to note the legacy report. I would like to thank all the members of that previous committee for a very detailed report that will give us a good basis for the work ahead of us in this session. I ask members to note the report and agree that we can discuss it in a later agenda item. Agenda item 5 is whether to take our existing business as a private. I'm asking you to agree that consideration of item 6 will be in our private session for this session. That's great, thank you very much. As I agreed, we'll now move to private session and allow a few minutes for members to switch to the other platform.