Meetings of Committees
All meetings take place in the Scottish Parliament, unless otherwise specified. Contact details for Committee Clerks are provided at the end of the Bulletin.
Justice Committee
10th Meeting, 2012
The Committee will meet at 9.45 am in Committee Room 6
1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 6 in private.
2. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the Evidence in Civil Partnership and Divorce Actions (Scotland) Order 2012 [draft] from—
Nicola Sturgeon, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy;
Simon Stockwell, Head of Family and Property Law, and Felicity Cullen, Solicitor, Legal Directorate, Scottish Government.
3. Subordinate legislation: Nicola Sturgeon (Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy) to move—
S4M-2365—That the Justice Committee recommends that the Evidence in Civil Partnership and Divorce Actions (Scotland) Order 2012 [draft] be approved.
4. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instrument—
Police Pensions (Contributions) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/71).
5. Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from—
Councillor Ian Blake, Convener, Dumfries and Galloway Police, Fire and Rescue Committee;
Councillor George Kay, Convener, Fife Police, Fire and Safety Committee;
Councillor Martin Greig, Convener, Grampian Joint Police Board;
Councillor Iain Whyte, Convener, Lothian and Borders Police Board;
Councillor Ian Ross, Vice Convener, Northern Joint Police Board;
Councillor Stephen Curran, Convener, Strathclyde Police Authority;
and then from—
Councillor Pat Watters, President, Councillor Barbara Grant, Community Safety Spokesperson, Hayley Wotherspoon, Policy Manager, and James Fowlie, Team Development Manager, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
6. Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the main themes arising from the evidence received on Part 2 of the Bill at Stage 1 in order to inform the drafting of its report.
Education and Culture Committee
10th Meeting, 2012
The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 2
1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private.
2. Youth employment strategy: The Committee will take evidence from—
Stephen Boyd, Assistant Secretary, STUC;
Mary Goodman, Senior Policy Adviser, Federation of Small Businesses;
Jacqui Hepburn, Director, Alliance of Sector Skills Councils;
Katie Hutton, Head of National Training Programmes Policy Integration, and Danny Logue, Director of Operations, Skills Development Scotland.
3. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instruments—
The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Safeguarders Panel) Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/54)
Teachers’ Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/70)
Education (Fees, Awards and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/72)
4. Kinship Care: The Committee will consider written evidence received.
Health and Sport Committee
11th Meeting, 2012
The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 1
1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 7 in private and whether its consideration of a draft report on its inquiry into integration of health and social care should be taken in private at future meetings.
2. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the Patient Rights (Treatment Time Guarantee) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 [draft] from—
Nicola Sturgeon, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy, Margaret Duncan, Head of Branch, Ministerial Support and NWTC Sponsorship, and Francesca Rennie, Solicitor, Scottish Government.
3. Subordinate legislation: Nicola Sturgeon to move—
S4M-02363—That the Health and Sport Committee recommends that the Patient Rights (Treatment Time Guarantee) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 [draft] be approved.
4. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the Community Care (Personal Care and Nursing Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 [draft] from—
Nicola Sturgeon, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy, and Gillian Barclay, Head of Older People’s Care Unit, Scottish Government.
5. Subordinate legislation: Nicola Sturgeon to move—
S4M-02364—That the Health and Sport Committee recommends that the Community Care (Personal Care and Nursing Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 [draft] be approved.
6. Inquiry into integration of health and social care: The Committee will take evidence from—
Nicola Sturgeon, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy, Angiolina Foster, Director of Health & Social Care Integration, Kathleen Bessos, Deputy Director, Health and Social Care Integration, and Alison Taylor, Team Leader, Integration and Service Development, Scottish Government.
7. Inquiry into integration of health and social care: The Committee will consider the main themes arising from evidence received during the inquiry.
Equal Opportunities Committee
5th Meeting, 2012
The Committee will meet at 2.00 pm in Committee Room 4
1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private.
2. Human trafficking The Committee will take evidence, in a round-table discussion, from—
Bronagh Andrew, Assistant Operations Manager, Glasgow Community and Safety Services – The TARA Project;
Alison Di Rollo, Senior Advocate Depute, Deputy Head National Sexual Crimes Unit, Crown Office, Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service;
Ian Japp, Head of Operations North, Gangmaster Licensing Authority;
Jim Laird, Trafficking Services Team Leader, Scotland, Migrant Help;
Gordon Meldrum, Deputy Chief Constable, Director General, Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency;
Shabnum Mustapha, Director, Amnesty International Scotland;
Euan Page, Parliamentary and Government Affairs Manager, Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Stefan Stoyanov, Policy Officer, Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People;
John Wilkes, Chief Executive, Scottish Refugee Council.
3. Petition PE1169: The Committee will consider correspondence from the Scottish Government about a Petition by Margaret Forbes, on behalf of Scottish Women Against Pornography, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce and enforce measures that ensure that magazines and newspapers containing sexually graphic covers are not displayed at children’s eye-level or below or adjacent to children’s titles and comics and should be screen sleeved before being placed on the shelf.
4. Inquiries on Gypsy/Traveller issues The Committee will consider its approach to its Gypsy/Travellers and care inquiry and to its inquiry on where Gypsy/Travellers live.
Public Petitions Committee
5th Meeting, 2012
The Committee will meet at 2.00 pm in Committee Room 2
1. Declaration of interests: Angus MacDonald will be invited to declare any relevant interests.
2. Consideration of a current petition: The Committee will consider—
PE1236 by Jill Fotheringham on A90/A937 safety improvements.
3. Consideration of new petitions: The Committee will consider—
PE1418 by Katherine Alexander on safeguarding vulnerable people
and take evidence from—
Katherine Alexander.
and will then consider—
PE1420 by Teresa McNally, on behalf of Clacks Kinship Carers, on recognising the real value of kinship carers and giving them parity with foster carers across Scotland
and take evidence from—
Teresa McNally, May Barker and Susan Douglas, Clacks Kinship Carers.
and will then consider—
PE1417 by Andrew Ellis Morrison on educating our future generations;
PE1419 by Jimmy Deuchars on a Scottish minister for older people.
4. Consideration of current petitions: The Committee will consider—
PE1098 by Lynn Merrifield, on behalf of Kingseat Community Council, and PE1223 by Ron Beaty on school bus safety;
PE1179 by Helen Moran, on behalf of the Brain Injury Awareness Campaign, on acquired brain injury services;
PE1403 by Peter Morris on improving support and assistance to victims of crime and their families;
PE1404 by Stephen Fyfe, on behalf of Diabetes UK Scotland, on access to insulin pump therapy;
PE1408 by Andrea MacArthur on the updating of pernicious anaemia/vitamin B12 deficiency understanding and treatment.
European and External Relations Committee
6th Meeting, 2012
The Committee will meet at 2.15 pm in Committee Room 1
1. EU Structural Funds: The Committee will take evidence from—
Dennis Malone, Chief Executive, Highlands and Islands Programme Partnership (HIPP) Ltd;
Gordon McLaren, Chief Executive, ESEP Ltd;
David Souter, Team Leader, Lowlands and Uplands Scotland, and Jim Millard, Team Leader, Highlands and Islands, Transnational and Cross Border, European Structural Funds, Scottish Government.
2. Developments in the Eurozone: The Committee will take evidence via video conference, not before 3.30pm, from—
Rt Hon David Mundell, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (for Scotland), UK Government.
3. Brussels Bulletin: The Committee will consider the latest edition of the Brussels Bulletin.
Subordinate Legislation Committee
8th Meeting, 2012
The Committee will meet at 2.30 pm in Committee Room 6
1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 5 and 6 in private.
2. Instruments subject to negative procedure: The Committee will consider the following—
Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/64);
Food Hygiene (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/75).
3. Instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure: The Committee will consider the following—
General Teaching Council for Scotland (Legal Assessor) Rules 2012 (SSI 2012/86).
4. Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (Abolition) Order 2012 [draft]: The Committee will consider a draft order brought forward under section 9 of the Public Bodies Act 2011.
5. Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider a draft report to the Justice Committee.
6. Consolidation of instruments: The Committee will consider its approach to the consolidation of Scottish statutory instruments.
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