Issue - meetings

Members are requested to intimate any Declarations of Interest or Transparency Statements

to note that the Chair advised that he had a connection in relation to all items on the agenda by virtue of (1) being a Member of the Diverse Experiences Advisory Panel, a named partner in the Scottish Government’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy Delivery Plan; (2) the Depute Representative of said Group to the Scottish Government Mental Health and Wellbeing Leadership Board; (3) being an unpaid carer; (4) his participation in a project with Dundee University investigating aspects of coding for chronic pain; and (5) being a client of North East Sensory Services respectively, however having applied the objective test, he did not consider that he had an interest and would not be withdrawing from the meeting.

Members were requested to intimate any declarations of interest or transparency statements in respect of items on the agenda.

The Board resolved:-

to note that the Chair advised that he had a connection in relation to all items on the agenda by virtue of (1) being a Member of the Diverse Experiences Advisory Panel, a named partner in the Scottish Government’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy Delivery Plan; (2) the Depute Representative of said Group to the Scottish Government Mental Health and Wellbeing Leadership Board; (3) being an unpaid carer; (4) his participation in a project with Dundee University investigating aspects of coding for chronic pain; and (5) being a client of North East Sensory Services respectively, however having applied the objective test, he did not consider that he had an interest and would not be withdrawing from the meeting.