Jamie Hepburn

Aspects of these amendments appear to have the potential to impact upon matters devolved to the Scottish Parliament.

I am concerned that NC107 in particular takes no account of Gaelic, Scots or British Sign Language.

Scottish Gaelic, Scots, and BSL are all legally recognised languages in Scotland, and the ethos of our respect for these languages run contrary to these amendments.

We are being asked to conduct an inquiry, comprised of elected representatives in competing parties to scrutinise the internal financial operations of one of those competing political parties.

There is, I believe, an obvious conflict of interest in parties investigating each other in this way.

Every single member who can sit on such a committee has a direct material interest in the outcome of its findings.

We are being asked to agree to conduct an inquiry, presumably by the convening of a parliamentary committee comprised of elected representatives of competing political parties to scrutinise the internal financial operations of one of those…