Jamie Hepburn: “I also consider that these amendments do not meet the principle of encouraging full participation in the democratic…”

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.

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.