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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 16 August 2025
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Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Meeting date: 27 October 2022

Martin Whitfield

I am grateful for that.

10:00 Meeting continued in private until 10:37.  

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Meeting date: 6 October 2022

Martin Whitfield

Good morning. I welcome everyone to the 19th meeting of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee in 2022. Our first agenda item is a decision on whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. Do committee members agree to that?

Members indicated agreement.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Cross-Party Group

Meeting date: 6 October 2022

Martin Whitfield

That is very helpful. Thank you, both, for attending the committee this morning. We will consider the application for the proposed CPG as our next agenda item. The clerks will be in touch with you in due course.

Item 3 is a decision on whether to approve the new cross-party group.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Cross-Party Group

Meeting date: 6 October 2022

Martin Whitfield

For our second agenda item, I welcome representatives of a proposed cross-party group on the Scots language. Good morning to Jackie Dunbar and to Emma Harper, who join us at the far end of the table. I will hand over to them to give us a short introduction on the proposed CPG.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Cross-Party Group

Meeting date: 6 October 2022

Martin Whitfield

Thank you very much indeed. I open it up to questions from the committee.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Cross-Party Group

Meeting date: 6 October 2022

Martin Whitfield

Excellent. The clerks will pass that information on in due course.

09:50 Meeting continued in private until 10:43.  

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Cross-Party Group

Meeting date: 6 October 2022

Martin Whitfield

As convener, I always get to ask one exciting question. From the evidence that we have heard today, you are using Scots as a collective description for several minority—perhaps unfairly so—languages in Scotland. Am I right in thinking that you are looking at the scope of minority languages covered by the term “Scots”? I love the fact that groups such as the Doric Society have signed up. I am just looking for clarification that it is about not just what we, in the south of Scotland, would call our lowland Scots, but is about Scots in the proper, collective definition.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Cross-Party Group

Meeting date: 6 October 2022

Martin Whitfield

Welcome and important.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Cross-Party Group

Meeting date: 6 October 2022

Martin Whitfield

Absolutely.

Do members agree to accord recognition to the proposed CPG?

Members indicated agreement.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Correspondence (Proxy Voting)

Meeting date: 29 September 2022

Martin Whitfield

A watching brief might be sensible. There might be some enthusiasm the first time it happens. We will wait and see.

I thank the committee for that discussion and thank those who have been watching. I now close the public part of the meeting.

10:08 Meeting continued in private until 10:49.