BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 8/2016 Today s Business Thursday 14 January 2016

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1 BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 8/2016 Today s Business Thursday 14 January 2016 ANNOUNCEMENT Royal Assent The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 1) received Royal Assent on 13 January 2016.

2 Summary of Today s Business Meetings of Committees 9.30 am Devolution (Further Powers) Committee Mary Fairfax Somerville Room (CR2) 9.30 am Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee David Livingstone Room (CR6) am Equal Opportunities Committee Adam Smith Room (CR5) am Scottish Commission for Public Audit Sir Alexander Fleming Room (CR3) am European and External Relations Committee Robert Burns Room (CR1) pm Health and Sport Committee James Clerk Maxwell Room (CR4) 1.00 pm Justice Sub-Committee on Policing David Livingstone Room (CR6) Meeting of the Parliament am Parliamentary Bureau Motions am General Questions pm First Minister s Questions pm Members Business S4M Stewart Maxwell: Protecting Children from Harmful Content Online 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Stage 1 Debate: Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Bill followed by Stage 1 Debate: Scottish Fiscal Commission Bill followed by Financial Resolution: Scottish Fiscal Commission Bill followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time For full details of today s business, see Section A. 2

3 Business Bulletin: Thursday 14 January 2016 Section A Today s Business 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. Devolution (Further Powers) Committee 2nd Meeting, 2016 The Committee will meet at 9.30 am in the Mary Fairfax Somerville Room (CR2) 1. Scotland s Fiscal Framework: The Committee will take evidence from Dr Monique Ebell, Research Fellow, National Institute of Economic and Social Research; Professor David Heald, Professor of Accountancy, University of Aberdeen Business School; David Phillips, Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies. 2. Intergovernmental Relations and Parliamentary Scrutiny: The Committee will consider correspondence from the Deputy First Minister. 3. Trade Union Bill (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report. 4. Scotland s Fiscal Framework (in private): The Committee will consider the evidence heard earlier in the meeting. Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee 1st Meeting, 2016 The Committee will meet at 9.30 am in the David Livingstone Room (CR6) 1. Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland: The Committee will take oral evidence from Bill Thomson, Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland; Ian Bruce, Public Appointments Manager, and Helen Hayne, Investigations Manager, Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland. 2. Inquiry into committee reform (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report. 3

4 Equal Opportunities Committee 1st Meeting, 2016 The Committee will meet at am in the Adam Smith Room (CR5) 1. Removing Barriers, race, ethnicity and employment (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report. European and External Relations Committee 1st Meeting, 2016 The Committee will meet at am in the Robert Burns Room (CR1) 1. Draft Budget Scrutiny (in private): The Committee will consider a draft response to the Finance Committee on the Scottish Government s Draft Budget Work programme (in private): The Committee will review its work programme. Health and Sport Committee 4th Meeting, 2016 The Committee will meet at pm in the James Clerk Maxwell Room (CR4) 1. Draft Budget Scrutiny (in private): The Committee will consider a revised draft letter to the Finance Committee. Justice Sub-Committee on Policing 1st Meeting, 2016 The Sub-Committee will meet at 1.00 pm in the David Livingstone Room (CR6) 1. Complaints handling: The Sub-Committee will take evidence from Chief Superintendent Carole Auld, Head of Professional Standards, Police Scotland; Ian Ross, Chair, Complaints and Conduct Committee, Scottish Police Authority; Kate Frame, Police Investigations and Review Commissioner. 4

5 Other Meetings Scottish Commission for Public Audit 1st Meeting, 2016 The Commission will meet at am in the Sir Alexander Fleming Room (CR3) 1. Audit Scotland s budget proposal for (in private): The Commission will consider a draft report. 5

6 Meeting of the Parliament am Parliamentary Bureau Motions am General Questions 1. Mark McDonald: To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the presumption of mainstream education. (S4O-05254) 2. Patrick Harvie: To ask the Scottish Government what the implications for Scotland are of the Paris agreement for fossil fuel production and consumption. (S4O-05255) 3. Rhoda Grant: To ask the Scottish Government what socioeconomic impact assessments it has carried out of the new marine protected areas and how many jobs will be lost on shore and at sea in these locations as a result of their designation. (S4O-05256) 4. Bill Kidd: To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on calls to revisit its position on the principle of universalism in public service provision. (S4O-05257) 5. Neil Bibby: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the outcome of its recent meeting with the RMT union. (S4O-05258) 6. Siobhan McMahon: To ask the Scottish Government for what reason total expenditure on the Legal Aid Fund in fell by 8% compared with the previous year. (S4O-05259) 7. Jim Hume: To ask the Scottish Government what Barnett consequentials will arise from the 600 million increase in mental health spending announced in the recent Spending Review, and how the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Economy plans to allocate this. (S4O-05260) 8. Jamie McGrigor: To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent closure of the A83 at the Rest and be Thankful. (S4O-05261) 9. Hanzala Malik: [Not Lodged] 10. Sandra White: To ask the Scottish Government when it last met Glasgow City Council and what issues were discussed. (S4O-05263) pm First Minister s Questions 1. Kezia Dugdale: To ask the First Minister what engagements she has planned for the rest of the day. (S4F-03161) 2. Ruth Davidson: To ask the First Minister when she will next meet the Secretary of State for Scotland. (S4F-03160) 6

7 3. Willie Rennie: To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet. (S4F-03159) 4. Mark McDonald: To ask the First Minister what recent discussions the Scottish Government has had with the UK Government regarding the future of renewables. (S4F-03171) 5. Ken Macintosh: To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government s target for building affordable homes will resolve the housing crisis that she referred to during First Minister s Questions on 7 January (S4F-03168) 6. Liz Smith: To ask the First Minister what criteria the Scottish Government is using to allocate funding and teacher support for schools in deprived communities. (S4F ) pm Members Business Debate on the subject of S4M Stewart Maxwell: Protecting Children from Harmful Content Online That the Parliament is concerned about children and vulnerable people accessing potentially harmful content online, including in the West Scotland region; welcomes the announcement that the UK music industry, Vevo and YouTube have agreed that the pilot to age-rate music videos by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) should now be made permanent for videos produced by artists signed to major UK labels and that independent labels will also take part in this voluntary initiative; notes that, according to BBFC-commissioned research, 78% of parents value age ratings on online music videos and 75% would like online channels to link those ratings to parental controls; notes calls for US and other non-uk record labels to voluntarily submit online music videos for classification by the BBFC and also for more online platforms to carry prominent age ratings and content advice for music videos classified by the BBFC and link those age ratings to parental controls; welcomes the decision of Scotland s four mobile networks, EE, O2, Three and Vodafone, to place mobile content that would be age-rated 18 or R18 by the BBFC behind access controls and internet filters to restrict access to that content by people under 18, and further notes calls for similar protections to be put in place for public WiFi and home broadband to ensure consistency of approach in protecting children from harmful content online pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Stage 1 Debate: Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Bill 7

8 S4M Angela Constance: Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Bill That the Parliament agrees to the general principles of the Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Bill. followed by Stage 1 Debate: Scottish Fiscal Commission Bill S4M John Swinney: Scottish Fiscal Commission Bill That the Parliament agrees to the general principles of the Scottish Fiscal Commission Bill. followed by Financial Resolution: Scottish Fiscal Commission Bill S4M John Swinney: Scottish Fiscal Commission Bill: Financial Resolution That the Parliament, for the purposes of any Act of the Scottish Parliament resulting from the Scottish Fiscal Commission Bill, agrees to any expenditure of a kind referred to in Rule (b) of the Parliament s Standing Orders arising in consequence of the Act. followed by Business Motions S4M Joe FitzPatrick on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau: Business Motion That the Parliament agrees to the following revision to the programme of business for Tuesday 19 January 2016 after followed by Final Stage Debate: National Galleries of Scotland Bill insert followed by Legislative Consent Motion: Welfare Reform and Work Bill UK Legislation followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time 8

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