Scottish Parliament Committee News
Issue 116,
Audit Committee
The Committee meeting last
week was dominated by the AGS report
into Scottish
Communities Committee
The Committee took further
evidence on stage 1 of the Antisocial
Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Bill from two panels. The first comprised the Chartered Institute
of Housing, the Scottish Association of Landlords and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The second panel was The Pollokshields Tenant
Management Co-Operative and the Cumbernauld Housing Partnership.
The Committee took the
rest of its meeting in private, discussing issues arising from its evidence
sessions so far.
Education Committee
The Committee took evidence
on the Education
(Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Bill from the Scottish
Mediation Network; the Scottish Committee of the Council of Tribunals; the
Advocacy Safeguards Agency; the Disability Rights Commission; and Enquire.
Environment and Rural Development Committee
The Committee
considered subordinate legislation,
including the draft Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003
(Designation of Scotland River Basin District) Order 2003, and the Producer
Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations
2003. The Committee also considered
a draft report on the Nature
Conservation (Scotland) Bill.
Equal Opportunities Committee
The Committee took evidence from Barnardos and Contact a Family Scotland on the Education
(Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Bill. It also took evidence from various
organisations regarding gender
recognition.
Finance Committee
The Committee met on
Tuesday and took evidence on the Antisocial
Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Bill from Stephen Fitzpatrick and
Margarita Morrison of COSLA as well as Ed Morrison and Jackie Robeson from the
Scottish Children’s reporter Administration.
Health
Committee
The main issue
for discussion by the Health Committee was the National
Health Service Reform (Scotland) Bill. Evidence was taken from a number
of participants including: Christine Lenihan and
Hilary Robertson of the Scottish NHS Confederation and Jim Devine, Scottish
Organiser for UNISON.
Justice 1 Committee
The Committee met on Wednesday
morning and considered evidence on the Criminal
Procedure (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill. There was also an oral report on
the recent visit to HM Prison Kilmarnock.
Local Government and
Transport Committee
At its last meeting, the Committee took evidence from a number of people on the
Local Governance
(Scotland) Bill.
Public
Petitions Committee
The Committee considered
eight new petitions. Among those which received support was
one calling for a register on the donation of bone marrow and blood cells.
Despite receiving a
letter requesting no further petitions on issues that are either of little
merit or already being dealt with by the Executive, Frank Harvey (a member of
the public and serial petitioner) has submitted a further two petitions for
discussion at the next Committee meeting.
Subordinate Legislation Committee
The Committee met on Tuesday
and considered Instruments on the subject of amnesic shellfish poisoning in various parts of
Other Committee
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Enterprise & Culture Committee
European
and External Relations Committee
Justice 2 Committee
Procedures Committee
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