Meetings of Committees
All meetings take place in the Scottish Parliament, unless otherwise specified.
Education and Culture Committee
14th Meeting, 2011
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 3 and 4, and consideration of a draft report on the National Gaelic Language Plan 2012-17 at a future meeting, in private.
2. The National Gaelic Language Plan 2012-17: The Committee will take evidence from—
John Angus MacKay, Chief Executive, and Arthur Cormack, Chair, Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
3. The National Gaelic Language Plan 2012-17: The Committee will consider the evidence heard.
4. Work programme: The Committee will consider its work programme.
Health and Sport Committee
17th Meeting, 2011
The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 1
1. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instrument—
The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/392).
2. Petition PE1056: The Committee will consider a Petition by Gordon, Jane and Steven McPherson calling for the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to introduce mandatory assessment tools for all health boards for the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT); to ensure commonality of patient guidance information regarding DVT; and to introduce a newborn screening programme for the Factor V gene, which has been shown to increase susceptibility to DVT.
3. Welfare Reform Bill (UK Parliament legislation) (in private): The Committee will consider a revised draft report on legislative consent memorandum LCM(S4) 5.1.
Justice Committee
17th 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 item 5 in private.
2. Commission on a UK Bill of Rights: The Committee will take evidence from—
Professor Chris Himsworth, Professor Emeritus of Administrative Law, University of Edinburgh;
Patrick Layden QC TD;
Lord McCluskey;
Professor Alan Miller, Chair, Scottish Human Rights Commission;
and then from—
Shabnum Mustapha, Programme Director, Scotland, Amnesty International;
Euan Page, Parliamentary and Government Affairs Manager, and Lynn Welsh, Head of Legal, Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Carole Ewart, Human Rights Consortium Scotland.
3. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instrument—
Act of Sederunt (Fees of Solicitors and Witnesses in the Sheriff Court) (Amendment) 2011 (SSI 2011/403).
4. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following instruments which are not subject to any parliamentary procedure—
Act of Sederunt (Lands Valuation Appeal Court) 2011 (SSI 2011/400);
Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session Amendment No. 7) (Taxation of Accounts and Fees of Solicitors) 2011 (SSI 2011/402);
Act of Sederunt (Sanction for the Employment of Counsel in the Sheriff Court) 2011 (SSI 2011/404).
5. Work programme: The Committee will consider its work programme, including its approach to the Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Bill.
Scotland Bill Committee
14th Meeting, 2011
The Committee will meet at 2.00 pm in Committee Room 2
1. The Scotland Bill (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
9th Meeting, 2011
The Committee will meet at 2.15 pm in Committee Room 6
1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether its consideration of its approach to phase two of its inquiry into reform of parliamentary business should be taken in private at a future meeting.
2. Cross-Party Group: The Committee will consider an application for recognition from the proposed Cross-Party Group on Men’s Violence Against Women and Children.
3. Public Appointments Commissioner for Scotland: The Committee will consider the Commissioner’s report CPA_2011_03.
4. Work programme (in private): The Committee will consider its work programme.
5. Reform of parliamentary business: remodelling the parliamentary week (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report.
Subordinate Legislation Committee
14th Meeting, 2011
The Committee will meet at 2.30 pm in Committee Room 4
1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 5 in private.
2. Instruments subject to affirmative procedure: The Committee will consider the following—
Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 Amendment Order 2012 [draft].
3. Instruments subject to negative procedure: The Committee will consider the following—
Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/410);
Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Prescribed Purposes for Consideration of Suitability) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/411);
Cattle Identification (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/412);
Seed (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/413);
Seed Potatoes (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/414);
Common Agricultural Policy Schemes (Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/415);
Common Agricultural Policy Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/416);
Deer (Close Seasons) (Scotland) Order 2011 (SSI 2011/417);
Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 (Authorised Operations) Order 2011 (SSI 2011/419).
4. Instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure: The Committee will consider the following—
Pollution Prevention and Control (Designation of Industrial Emissions Directive) (Scotland) Order 2011 (SSI 2011/423).
5. Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the contents of a draft report.