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BUSINESS BULLETIN 9 / 2001 Wednesday 17 January 2001 Section A – Daily Business List
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Meetings of Committees All meetings take place in Committee Chambers, Edinburgh unless otherwise indicated. Health and Community Care Committee 2nd Meeting, 2001 The Committee will meet at 9.30 am in The Chamber, Assembly Hall, The Mound, Edinburgh 1. Regulation of Care (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the general principles of the Bill at Stage 1 from—
Transport and the Environment Committee 1st Meeting, 2001 The Committee will meet at 9.30 am in Committee Room 1 1. Water Inquiry (in private): The Committee will consider possible lines of questioning for witnesses on its inquiry into water and the water industry. Not before 9.45 am 2. Declaration of Interests: The Convener will invite new members of the Committee to declare any relevant interests. 3. Item in Private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 7 in private. 4. Subordinate Legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instruments—
5. Water Inquiry: The Committee will take evidence as part of its inquiry into water and the water industry from—
6. Telecommunications Developments: The Committee will consider its response to the Scottish Executive’s consultation on proposed changes to permitted development arrangements for telecommunications developments. 7. Water Inquiry: The Committee will consider possible fact-finding visits to be undertaken in connection with the inquiry. Education, Culture and Sport Committee 2nd Meeting, 2001 The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 3 1. Items in Private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 5 and item 6 in private. 2. Film Industry Inquiry: Mike Russell will present a report on the Scottish film industry. 3. Remits for Committee Reporters: The Committee will agree remits and timetable for the preparation of members' reports. 4. Regulation of Care Bill: The Committee will take evidence from—
5. Schools Infrastructure Inquiry: The Committee will discuss a programme for the completion of this inquiry. 6. SEN Inquiry: The Committee will consider a final draft report.
Social Justice Committee 2nd Meeting, 2001 The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh 1. Choice of Deputy Convener: The Committee will choose a Deputy Convener. 2. Items to be taken in private: The Committee will consider whether items 4, 6 and 7 are taken in private. 3. Items to be taken in private: The Committee will decide whether consideration of questions for witnesses before the taking of evidence on the Housing (Scotland) Bill and its conclusions following the taking of evidence are to be taken in private at meetings on 24 and 31 January, and 7 and 14 February. 4. Questions for witnesses: The Committee will consider its lines of questioning for the Scottish Executive and the Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland. 5. Housing (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the general principles of the Bill at Stage 1 from Officials from the Scottish Executive. The Committee will take evidence on the general principles of the Bill at Stage 1 from the Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland from—
6. Housing (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider its conclusions following the taking of evidence on this Bill. 7. Petition: The Committee will further consider how it proceeds with PE242, a petition by Action of Churches Together In Scotland, Scottish Refugee Council and Amnesty International calling for the Scottish Parliament to give asylum seekers rights of access to various support services and to amend legislation to restore the entitlement of asylum seekers to accommodation and cash based support. Justice 1 Committee 1st Meeting, 2001 The Committee will meet at 11.30 am in Committee Room 2 1. Declaration of interests: The Convener will invite members to declare any relevant interests. 2. Items in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 3 in private and whether to consider possible lines of questioning on the Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Bill in private at its meetings on 30 January, 6 and 14 February. 3. Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider possible witnesses and areas of questioning on the general principles of the Bill at Stage 1. 4. Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the general principles of the Bill at Stage 1 from the Scottish Executive— Niall Campbell, Head of Criminal and Civil Law Group, Robin McEwen, Head of Parole and Miscarriages Review Division, Ian Allen, Head of Legal Aid Branch, Gillian Russell and John Paterson, both of the Solicitor’s Office. 5. Subordinate Legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instruments— Act of Sederunt (Fees of Sheriff Officers) 2000 (SSI 2000/419) Act of Sederunt (Fees of Solicitors in the Sheriff Court) (Amendment) 2000 (SSI 2000/420) The Divorce etc. (Pensions) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 2000 (SSI 2000/438).
Meeting of the Parliament The Presiding Officer wishes to announce that subject to the Parliament’s approval of Business Motion S1M-1551, set out below, today’s Business will be as follows: 2.30 pm Time for Reflection – The Most Reverend Bruce Cameron, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions S1M-1552 Mr Tom McCabe on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau: Change of Decision Time—That the Parliament agrees under Rule 11.2.4 of the Standing Orders that Decision Time on Wednesday 17 January 2001 shall begin at 5.30 pm. S1M-1551 Mr Tom McCabe on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau: Business Motion—That the Parliament agrees Wednesday 17 January 2001
S1M-1553 Mr Tom McCabe on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau: Designation of Lead Committees—That the Parliament agrees that: the Health and Community Care Committee is designated as Lead Committee in consideration of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Bill and that the Bill should also be considered by the Local Government Committee and by the Education, Culture and Sport Committee; and the Justice I Committee is designated as Lead Committee in consideration of the Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Bill. S1M-1554 Mr Tom McCabe on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau: Designation of Lead Committees—That the Parliament agrees the following designation of Lead Committee— The Health and Community Care Committee to consider the Specified Risk Material Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/3) and the Specified Risk Material Order Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/4). followed by Stage 1 Debate on the Mortgage Rights (Scotland) Bill— S1M-1534 Cathie Craigie: Mortgage Rights (Scotland) Bill—That the Parliament agrees to the general principles of the Mortgage Rights (Scotland) Bill. followed by Debate on the Health and Social Care Bill - UK Legislation— S1M-1529 Malcolm Chisholm: Health and Social Care Bill - UK Legislation—That the Parliament endorses the principle of transferring to local authorities in Scotland the responsibility for the funding and care management of people in residential care and nursing homes with preserved rights to higher levels of income support as set out in the Health and Social Care Bill; also endorses the principle of introducing enabling powers to extend recognition to specific groups of healthcare professionals for the purposes of dispensing NHS prescriptions written by them and of determining the list of medicines and appliances which they may prescribe and which NHS community pharmacists may be paid for dispensing, and agrees that the relevant provisions to achieve these ends in the Bill should be considered by the UK Parliament. The Clerk has been informed that the following document(s) are relevant to this debate. Executive Memorandum on the Health and Social Care Bill followed by Debate on the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill - UK Legislation— S1M-1527 Malcolm Chisholm: Tobacco Advertising and Promotions Bill - UK Legislation—That the Parliament endorses the need to ban tobacco advertising and promotion in Scotland as set out in the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill and agrees that the relevant provisions in the Bill should be considered by the UK Parliament. The Clerk has been informed that the following document(s) are relevant to this debate. Executive Memorandum on the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill followed by Debate on Convenership of Committees S1M-1555 Mr Tom McCabe on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau: Convenership of Committees—That the Parliament agrees that the Convener of the Justice 2 Committee be appointed from the Labour Party and that the Deputy Convener of the Justice 2 Committee be appointed from the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. The Presiding Officer has selected the following amendment S1M-1555.1 Tricia Marwick: Convenership of Committees—As an amendment to motion (S1M-1555) in the name of Mr Tom McCabe, leave out from "the Convener" to end and insert "the founding principles of the Parliament as established by the Consultative Steering Group must not be undermined; that those principles have as their bedrock the fair representation of the parties in the Parliament, on parliamentary committees and in the role of Convener and Deputy Convener of those committees; and therefore instructs the Parliamentary Bureau to bring forward a proposal to allocate the Convenership and Deputy Convenership of the Justice 2 Committee according to the system that has been successfully applied since the establishment of the Parliament and which has to date commanded all party support." followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business debate on the subject of— S1M-1474 Janis Hughes: Acute Health Service Review in South Glasgow—That the Parliament notes the current review of acute hospital services in the south of Glasgow and believes that there should be an option appraisal of all the sites considered by Greater Glasgow Health Board as part of their consultation process. |
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