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<!-- a case difference or two: -->

<alias lastname="Macdonald" alternate="MacDonald"/>
<alias fullname="Lewis Macdonald" alternate="Lewis MacDonald"/>

<alias lastname="Maclean" alternate="MacLean"/>
<alias fullname="Kate Maclean" alternate="Kate MacLean"/>

<alias fullname="Bruce Crawford" alternate="Bruce JP Crawford"/>

<alias fullname="Angus MacKay" alternate="Angus Mackay"/>

<!-- shorted forms -->

<alias fullname="Kenneth Macintosh" alternate="Ken Macintosh"/>

<!-- gaelic forms -->

<alias fullname="John Farquhar Munro" alternate="Iain Rothach"/>
<alias lastname="Farquhar Munro" alternate="Rothach"/>
<alias fullname="Alasdair Morrison" alternate="Alasdair Moireasdan"/>

<!-- frequent mispellings: -->

<alias fullname="Patricia Ferguson" alternate="Patricia Fergusson"/>
<alias fullname="Shona Robison" alternate="Shona Robinson"/>
<alias fullname="Lewis Macdonald" alternate="Lewis McDonald"/>
<alias fullname="Angus MacKay" alternate="Angus McKay"/>
<alias fullname="Iain Gray" alternate="Ian Gray"/>
<alias fullname="Frank McAveety" alternate="Frank MacAveety"/>
<alias fullname="Nicol Stephen" alternate="Nichol Stephen"/>
<alias fullname="Malcolm Chisholm" alternate="Malcolm Chisolm"/>
<alias fullname="Cathy Jamieson" alternate="Cathy Jameson"/>

<!-- The Convener may be various people - normally the Presiding
Officer or Deputy Presiding Officer who opens the meeting -
sometimes different people on the same day (which I've fixed in
the files.)  When it seems to be consistent throughout the
day, I've set that here... -->

<alias fullname="David Steel" alternate="The Convener" from="2000-03-15" to="2000-03-15"/>
<alias fullname="David Steel" alternate="The Convener" from="1999-09-08" to="1999-09-08"/>
<alias fullname="Patricia Ferguson" alternate="The Convener" from="2001-09-06" to="2001-09-06"/>
<alias fullname="Patricia Ferguson" alternate="The Convener" from="2001-11-01" to="2001-11-01"/>
<alias fullname="George Reid" alternate="The Convener" from="2002-06-26" to="2002-06-26"/>
<alias fullname="Murray Tosh" alternate="The Convener" from="2002-11-13" to="2002-11-13"/>
<alias fullname="George Reid" alternate="The Convener" from="2004-06-03" to="2004-06-03"/>
<alias fullname="George Reid" alternate="The Convener" from="2005-01-26" to="2005-01-26"/>
<alias fullname="Trish Godman" alternate="The Convener" from="2005-11-09" to="2005-11-09"/>
<alias fullname="George Reid" alternate="The Convener" from="2006-01-11" to="2006-01-11"/>
<alias fullname="George Reid" alternate="The Convener" from="2006-05-31" to="2006-05-31"/>
<alias fullname="Trish Godman" alternate="The Convener" from="2006-06-15" to="2006-06-15"/>

<alias fullname="Murray Tosh" alternate="The Deputy Convener" from="2004-04-01" to="2004-04-01"/>

<!-- the presiding and deputy presiding officers
     There is some ambiguity here, in that sometimes the deputy
     is not qualified with their full name and on certain days
     there are two presiding officers.  We need to keep track
     of the last such mentioned when parsing... -->

<alias fullname="George Reid" alternate="The Deputy Presiding Officer" from="1999-05-12" to="2003-05-06"/>
<alias fullname="Patricia Ferguson" alternate="The Deputy Presiding Officer" from="1999-05-12" to="2003-05-06"/>
<alias fullname="David Steel" alternate="The Presiding Officer" from="1999-05-12" to="2003-05-03"/>

<alias fullname="Murray Tosh" alternate="The Deputy Presiding Officer" from="2001-11-29" to="2003-05-07"/>

<alias fullname="Trish Godman" alternate="The Deputy Presiding Officer" from="2003-05-07" to="2007-05-13"/>
<alias fullname="Murray Tosh" alternate="The Deputy Presiding Officer" from="2003-05-07" to="2007-05-13"/>
<alias fullname="George Reid" alternate="The Presiding Officer" from="2003-05-07" to="2007-05-14"/>

<alias fullname="Trish Godman" alternate="The Deputy Presiding Officer" from="2007-05-14" to="9999-12-31"/>
<alias fullname="Alasdair Morgan" alternate="The Deputy Presiding Officer" from="2007-05-14" to="9999-12-31"/>
<alias fullname="Alex Fergusson" alternate="The Presiding Officer" from="2007-05-14" to="9999-12-31"/>

</publicwhip>
