Jamie Hepburn: “We are being asked to conduct an inquiry, comprised of elected representatives in competing parties to scrutinise the…”

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

I also consider that these amendments do not meet the principle of encouraging full participation in the democratic process.

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

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…