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

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.

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

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

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.