BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 96/2015 Today s Business Tuesday 9 June 2015

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1 BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 96/2015 Today s Business Tuesday 9 June 2015

2 Summary of Today s Business Meetings of Committees 9.30 am Justice Committee the Robert Burns Room (CR1) 9.45 am Education and Culture Committee the David Livingstone Room (CR6) 9.45 am Health and Sport Committee the Mary Fairfax Somerville Room (CR2) am Public Petitions Committee the James Clerk Maxwell Room (CR4) am Welfare Reform Committee the Sir Alexander Fleming Room (CR3) am Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee the Adam Smith Room (CR5) Meeting of the Parliament 2.00 pm Time for Reflection Reverend David Mumford, Minister, St Andrew s Episcopal Church, Brechin Parliamentary Bureau Motions Topical Questions Ministerial Statement: Publication of the 2013 Greenhouse Gas Inventory Scottish Government Debate: EU Referendum Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body: Appointment of a Member of the Standards Commission for Scotland Business Motions Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time Members Business S4M Angus MacDonald: 10th Anniversary of the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 For full details of today s business, see Section A. 2

3 Business Bulletin: Tuesday 9 June 2015 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. Justice Committee 20th Meeting, 2015 The Committee will meet at 9.30 am in the Robert Burns Room (CR1) 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private. 2. Apologies (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence, in round-table format, on the Bill at Stage 1 from Ronnie Conway, Co-ordinator in Scotland, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; David Stephenson QC, Faculty of Advocates; Graeme Watson, Scottish representative, Clinical Negligence Sector Focus Team, Forum of Insurance Lawyers; Laura Ceresa, Solicitor and member of the Society Health and Medical Law Committee, Law Society of Scotland; Paul McFadden, Head of Complaints Standards, Scottish Public Services Ombudsman; Charlie Irvine, Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Strathclyde; and then from Dr Sally Winning, Deputy Chair, British Medical Association Scotland; Dr Anthea Martin, Joint Head of Medical Division, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Dr Gordon McDavid, Medicolegal Adviser, Medical Protection Society; Bruce Adamson, Legal Officer, Scottish Human Rights Commission; Geraldine McCann, Head of Administration and Legal Services, South Lanarkshire Council. 3. Inquiries into Deaths (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from Patricia Ferguson MSP; Patrick McGuire, Thompson s Solicitors. 4. Work programme: The Committee will consider its work programme. 3

4 Education and Culture Committee 15th Meeting, 2015 The Committee will meet at 9.45 am in the David Livingstone Room (CR6) 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 Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (Ancillary Provision) Order 2015 [draft] from Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs, Noel Fojut, Historic Environment Policy Unit, and Emma Thomson, Principal Legal Officer, Scottish Government. 3. Subordinate legislation: Fiona Hyslop (Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs) to move S4M That the Education and Culture Committee recommends that the Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (Ancillary Provision) Order 2015 [draft] be approved. 4. Education (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from Keir Bloomer, Advisory Board Member, Reform Scotland; Professor Sally Brown, Convener of the RSE Education Committee, Royal Society of Edinburgh; Professor Sue Ellis, Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Iain Glennie, Professional Officer, Scottish Secondary Teachers Association; and then from Sally Cavers, Manager of Enquire - Scottish Advice Service for Additional Support for Learning, Children in Scotland; Irene Henery, Senior Solicitor, Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland; Jim Martin, Scottish Public Service Ombudsman; Iain Smith, Policy and Parliamentary Officer, Inclusion Scotland. 5. Memorandum of Understanding on the BBC: The Committee will discuss the draft Memorandum of Understanding on the BBC and its future engagement with the Scottish Parliament. 6. Scotland s Commissioner for Children and Young People: The Committee will consider correspondence to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. Health and Sport Committee 19th Meeting, 2015 The Committee will meet at 9.45 am in the Mary Fairfax Somerville Room (CR2) 1. NHS boards budget scrutiny: The Committee will take evidence from Mark White, Director of Finance, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde; Derek Lindsay, Director of Finance, NHS Ayrshire and Arran; Lindsay Bedford, Interim Director of Finance, NHS Tayside; Katy Lewis, Director of Finance, NHS Dumfries and Galloway; Marion Fordham, Director of Finance, NHS Western Isles. 4

5 2. Smoking Prohibition (Children in Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from Dr James Cant, Head of British Lung Foundation Scotland and Northern Ireland, Sheila Duffy, Chief Executive, ASH Scotland, and David McColgan, Policy & Public Affairs Manager Scotland, British Heart Foundation Scotland, Scottish Coalition on Tobacco (SCOT); Celia Gardiner, Health Improvement Programme Manager Tobacco, NHS Health Scotland. Public Petitions Committee 12th Meeting, 2015 The Committee will meet at am in the James Clerk Maxwell Room (CR4) 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. 2. Consideration of new petitions: The Committee will consider PE1565 by James Dougall on whole of life sentences for violent reoffenders and take evidence from James Dougall; Lindsay Dougall; and will then consider PE1568 by Catherine Hughes on funding, access and promotion of the NHS Centre for Integrative Care and take evidence from Catherine Hughes; Irene Logan, Secretary/Treasurer, Fibromyalgia Friends Scotland; Dr Patrick Trust, retired GP. 3. Consideration of continued petitions: The Committee will consider PE1351 by Chris Daly and Helen Holland on time for all to be heard; PE1482 by John Womersley on isolation in single room hospitals; PE1493 by Peter John Gordon on a Sunshine Act for Scotland; PE1533 by Jeff Adamson, on behalf of Scotland Against the Care Tax, on abolition of non-residential social care charges for older and disabled people; PE1549 by Alan Clark Young on concessionary travel passes for war veterans; PE1554 by Jacq Kelly, on behalf of Leonard Cheshire Disability, on improving the provision of disabled-friendly housing. 4. Work programme: The Committee will consider a paper by the clerk. 5. Business planning: The Committee will consider a paper by the clerk. Welfare Reform Committee 11th Meeting, 2015 The Committee will meet at am in the Sir Alexander Fleming Room (CR3) 1. Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners Rights: The Committee will take evidence from 5

6 Alex Neil, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners Rights, Jamie MacDougall, Head of Social Security Policy and Delivery Division, and Edward Orr, Senior Policy Officer, Social Security Policy and Delivery Division, Scottish Government. 2. Parliament Day Craigmillar: The Committee will report back on the Parliament Day Craigmillar event held in May. 3. Citizen s Advice Bureaux Visits: The Committee will report back on visits to Citizens Advice Bureaux recently undertaken by members. Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 20th Meeting, 2015 The Committee will meet at am in the Adam Smith Room (CR5) 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private. 2. Instruments subject to negative procedure: The Committee will consider the following Community Care (Provision of Residential Accommodation Outwith Scotland) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/202); University of the West of Scotland (Amendment of the University of Paisley (Scotland) Order of Council 1993) Order of Council 2015 (SSI 2015/209); Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2015 (SSI 2015/210); Water Environment (River Basin Management Planning etc.) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/211); Environmental Liability (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/214); Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/216); Property Factors (Registration) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/217); Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/218); National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments and General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/219); Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Integration Joint Board Establishment) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2015 (SSI 2015/222); Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Fees for Scheme Membership and Disclosure Requests) Amendment Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/223); Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (Administrative Support) (Specified Persons) Order 2015 (SSI 2015/224); Scottish Sentencing Council (Procedure for Appointment of Members) Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/225); Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/226); 6

7 Health and Care Professions Council (Registration and Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules Order of Council 2015 (SI 2015/1337). 3. Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the delegated powers provisions in this Bill after Stage Education (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider a draft report to the Education and Culture Committee. 7

8 Meeting of the Parliament 2.00 pm Time for Reflection Reverend David Mumford, Minister, St Andrew s Episcopal Church, Brechin Parliamentary Bureau Motions Topical Questions 1. Claire Baker: To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the range of powers of the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner. (S4T-01054) Ministerial Statement: Publication of the 2013 Greenhouse Gas Inventory Scottish Government Debate: EU Referendum S4M Fiona Hyslop: EU Referendum That the Parliament notes the publication of the draft European Union (Referendum) Bill on 28 May 2015 and the Prime Minister s intention to renegotiate the UK s terms of membership with the EU before a referendum; advocates the bill s amendment to extend the voting franchise in the referendum to 16 and 17-yearolds and all EU citizens resident in the UK; calls for the introduction of a double majority to ensure that none of the four constituent parts of the UK can be taken out of the EU against the will of its people; recognises the great value of Scotland s place in the EU and will make a positive case for Scotland and the UK remaining in the EU by highlighting the economic, social, cultural and educational benefits of EU membership, and advocates the constructive reform of the EU from within the existing treaty framework. The Presiding Officer has selected the following amendments S4M Claire Baker: EU Referendum As an amendment to motion S4M in the name of Fiona Hyslop (EU Referendum), leave out from calls for to end and insert believes that the EU referendum should not be held on the same date as any other election in Britain, including the Scottish Parliament election in 2016, as recommended by the Electoral Commission in its briefing, Referendum on the United Kingdom s membership of the European Union; highlights the substantial benefits of EU membership to Scotland and the UK s economy through access to its single market; acknowledges the social, cultural and educational benefits of continued EU membership, and will make a positive progressive case for continued membership during the referendum while 8

9 advocating constructive reform of the EU from within the existing treaty framework as strong and active members. S4M Alex Johnstone: EU Referendum As an amendment to motion S4M in the name of Fiona Hyslop (EU Referendum), leave out from first advocates to end and insert believes that the UK Parliament has the right to determine the franchise for such a referendum; recognises the vital importance of renegotiating the UK s relationship with the EU, and pledges to work with the Prime Minister in order to achieve these changes and their subsequent approval in a UK-wide referendum. S4M Willie Rennie: EU Referendum As an amendment to motion S4M in the name of Fiona Hyslop (EU Referendum), leave out from calls for to end and insert believes that the UK is best served being a part of the EU and recognises the positive impact that membership has on Scotland; considers the pro-european case to be strong across the UK but recognises that pro- EU does not equate to anti-reform; is certain that EU membership is important for jobs, given that the EU is the UK s largest export market; believes that pulling up the drawbridge on the EU and the single market would be a sure way to damage the economy of Scotland and the whole UK; further believes that withdrawal from the EU would be damaging to the UK s social and cultural diversity; celebrates the UK s membership of the EU, and looks forward to making the positive case for its continued membership in the months ahead. Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body: Appointment of a Member of the Standards Commission for Scotland S4M Liam McArthur on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body: Appointment of Member of the Standards Commission for Scotland That the Parliament agrees, under section 8 of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000, to appoint Kevin Dunion as a Member of the Standards Commission for Scotland. Business Motions Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time Members Business Debate on the subject of 9

10 S4M Angus MacDonald: 10th Anniversary of the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 That the Parliament notes the 10th anniversary on 1 June of the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 receiving Royal Assent; welcomes progress being made in bringing to fruition the priorities of the National Gaelic Language Plan; believes that Gaelic education has helped to reverse the decline of Scotland s indigenous language; welcomes research conducted for Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), which found the value of Gaelic to businesses and communities to be up to million per annum, demonstrating that what it considers the currently modest investment in Gaelic translates into a significant economic contribution, not just in the Highlands and Islands but in the central belt of Scotland; congratulates Bòrd na Gàidhlig on its work to promote the Gaelic language and culture and to encourage the many community groups that are creating opportunities for speakers of all ages and backgrounds while acknowledging that it is today s young children who will keep Gaelic alive and flourishing in the future, and notes calls for all of Scotland to participate in the task already underway of stemming and reversing the decline of the Gaelic language to ensure its survival in the long term. 10

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