This section includes the agendas of the forthcoming committee meetings and outlines proposed future business, which may be subject to change. Committees have the right to take items in private and this will be notified as far in advance as possible.
Many committees include details of their future business on their webpages, which can be accessed on the committee hub page.
Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee
7 December 2011
15th Meeting, 2011
The Committee will meet at 9.30 am in Committee Room 2
1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 5 in private.
2. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/draft) from—
Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, Scottish Government.
3. Subordinate legislation: Fergus Ewing, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism to move S4M-00912—That the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee recommends that the The Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/draft) be approved.
4. Achieving the Scottish Government’s renewable energy targets: The Committee will take evidence in a round table format from—
Professor Paul Mitchell, Director of Institute of Energy Technologies, Aberdeen University;
Niall Stuart, Chief Executive, Scottish Renewables;
Dan Finch, Managing Director of EDPR and UK and Project Director, Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd;
David Cunningham, Analyst, Altium Securities;
Peter Atherton, Managing Director and Head of European Utility Sector Research, Citigroup;
Colin Ormiston, Development Director, Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd;
Joe Philips, Head of Policy and Strategy, Garrad Haasan & Partners Ltd;
Helen McDade, Head of Policy, The John Muir Trust;
Professor Ian Arbon, Institution of Mechanical Engineers;
Felix Wright, Development Officer for Argyll and Bute, Community Energy Scotland.
5. Achieving the Scottish Government’s renewable energy targets: The Committee will scope a proposed future inquiry.
Finance Committee
7 December 2011
13th Meeting, 2011
The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 1
1. Early years intervention in the Netherlands: The Committee will take evidence by video conference from—
Dr Tijne Berg-le Clercq, Senior International Youth and Family Policy Officer, and Merel Steinweg, Intern in the International Department, Netherlands Youth Institute;
Professor AJP (Guus) Schrijvers, Professor of Public Health, University Medical Centre Utreacht, Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care.
2. Draft Budget 2012-13 and Spending Review 2011 Scrutiny (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report on the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2012-13 and Spending Review 2011.
Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee
7 December 2011
11th Meeting, 2011
The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 5
1. Broadband infrastructure in Scotland: The Committee will take evidence from—
Peter Shearman, Head of Infrastructure Policy, Broadband Stakeholder Group;
Fiona Ballantyne, Member for Scotland, Communications Consumer Panel;
Prof Michael Fourman, Chair of the Digital Scotland Working Group, Royal Society of Edinburgh.
2. Homelessness: The Committee will take evidence from—
Olga Clayton, Head of Community Care and Housing at North Ayrshire Council, Association of Local Authority Chief Housing Officers;
Cllr Brian Goodall, Chair of the 2012 Steering Group, and Alan McKeown, Head of Housing at Angus Council, COSLA;
Rebecca Maxwell, Assistant Chief Executive, Sustainability, Economy and Environment at Stirling Council, Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (Scotland).
3. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following instruments which are not subject to any parliamentary procedure—
the Licensing and Regulation of Taxis (Appeals in Respect of Taxi Fares) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011 (SSI 2011/401)
Proposed future business
At its next meeting, on 14 December, the Committee will continue to take evidence on the 2012 Homelessness commitment and broadband infrstructure.
Local Government and Regeneration Committee
7 December 2011
13th Meeting, 2011
The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 6
1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private.
2. Inquiry on a living wage in Scotland: The Committee will take evidence from—
Donald Hirsch, Head of Income Studies, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University;
Chris Goulden, Policy and Research Manager, Joseph Rowntree Foundation;
Rhys Moore, Director, Living Wage Foundation;
and then from—
Peter Kelly, Director of the Poverty Alliance, and Dave Moxham, Deputy General Secretary of the Scottish Trade Union Congress, Scottish Living Wage Campaign;
Annie Gunner Logan, Director, CCPS Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland;
Nick Waugh, Policy Officer, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations;
and then from—
Dave Watson, Scottish Organiser, UNISON;
Pat Rafferty, Scottish Secretary, Unite the Union;
Danny Williamson, Industrial Officer, PCS;
Alex Mcluckie, Senior Organiser, GMB.
3. Inquiry on a living wage in Scotland: The Committee will consider its approach to the inquiry.
4. Inquiry on a living wage in Scotland: The Committee will consider the evidence received on a living wage in Scotland.
5. Inquiry on Public Services Reform The Committee will consider its approach to the inquiry.
Proposed future business
At its next meeting, on 14 December, the Committee will continue to take oral evidence on its inquiry into a living wage in Scotland.
Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee
7 December 2011
14th Meeting, 2011
The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 4
1. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instruments—
the Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/394); and
the Police (Retention and Disposal of Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/395).
2. Common Fisheries Policy (in private): The Committee will consider draft correspondence.
3. Zero waste regulations (in private): The Committee will consider its approach to its scrutiny of the forthcoming zero waste regulations.
4. Common Agricultural Policy (in private): The Committee will consider its approach to the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.
Proposed future business
At its next meeting, on 14 December, the Committee expects to consider an affirmative instrument of the Crofting Commission elections and consider SNH’s Deer Code of Practice.