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Section C – Future Committee Meetings This section includes the agendas of the forthcoming committee meetings and outlines proposed future business, which may be subject to change. Committees have the right to take items in private and this will be notified as far in advance as possible. Many committees include details of their future business on their webpages, which can be accessed at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/index.htm Justice Committee The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 1 1. Decisions on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 6 in private and also whether its consideration of a draft report on the affirmative instrument being considered later in the meeting and a draft Stage 1 report on the Long Leases (Scotland) Bill should be taken in private at future meetings. 2. Long Leases (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from—
and then from—
3. Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the Bill at Stage2. 4. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the draft Retention of Samples etc. (Children’s Hearings) (Scotland) Order 2011 from—
5. Subordinate legislation: Fergus Ewing MSP (Minister for Community Safety) to move S3M-7742—
6. Work programme: The Committee will consider its work programme. 7. Long Leases (Scotland) Bill (in private): The Committee will consider the main themes arising from the oral evidence heard earlier in the meeting. Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 22 February 2011, it is expected that the Committee will consider a draft Stage 1 report on the Long Leases (Scotland) Bill. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Finance Committee The Committee will meet at 2.00 pm in Committee Room 4 1. Scottish Variable Rate inquiry (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report. 2. Work programme (in private): The Committee will consider its work programme. Proposed future business For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Public Petitions Committee The Committee will meet at 2.00 pm in Committee Room 1 1. Consideration of current petitions: The Committee will consider the following current petitions—
Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 22 February, the Committee expects to further consider current petitions on mandatory fitting of seat belts on school buses; school bus safety; standards of social rented housing; promotion of independent vehicular ferry routes; requirement for FAI; male victims of domestic abuse/violence; investigation into the 1949 Yangtze campaign medal awards system; improving compulsory purchase for derelict properties; Public Guardian’s responsibilities under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000; Parkinson’s medication - get it on time, every time; investigation of deaths in suspiscious circumstances; support for the national Cerebral Palsy/Acquired brain Injury football squad; saltire on Edinburgh Castle; needs of kinship care children; abolition of church appointments to General teaching Council; ban Mosquito devices now; having regard to young people when considering changes to leisure and cultural facilities; raise a Saltire in honour of the memory of Bishop Robert Wishart; education provision for children and young people absent from school due to illness; review and strengthen the Schools Consultation (Scotland) Act 2010 and accompanying guidance; better protection for wild land; Giving Voice – speech and language therapy transforms lives; improving the lives of children with asthma across Scotland; stablishment of further static gear only inshore fisheries; support for the interpretation of the Battle of Prestonpans; and repeal of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee The Committee will meet at 2.00 pm in Committee Room 2 1. Road safety and young drivers: The Committee will take evidence from—
and then from—
Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 22 February, the Committee expects to consider subordinate legislation on the M8 (Baillieston to Newhouse) Special Road Scheme 2011 and to take evidence on climate change policies and aspects of road safety. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Scotland Bill Committee The Committee will meet at 2.15 pm in Committee Room 6 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 3 in private and whether to consider its draft report in private at future meetings. 2. Scotland Bill (UK Parliament legislation):The Committee will take evidence from—
and then from—
and then from—
3. Work programme: The Committee will consider its work programme and its approach to the consideration of a final report. Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 22 February, the Committee expects to consider a draft report on the Scotland Bill. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee The Committee will meet at 2.15 pm in Committee Room 5 1. Declaration of interests: Jim Hume will be invited to declare any relevant interests. 2. Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland: The Committee will consider a report from the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland. 3. Annual report: The Committee will consider a draft annual report for the parliamentary year from 9 May 2010 to 22 March 2011. 4. Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner (in private): The Committee will consider draft directions to the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner. 5. Legacy paper (in private): The Committee will consider a draft legacy paper. Proposed future business It is expected that this will be the Committee’s final meeting of this Session of the Scottish Parliament. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Subordinate Legislation Committee The Committee will meet at 2.15 pm in Committee Room 3 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 9 in private. 2. Instruments subject to approval: The Committee will consider the following—
3. Draft instruments subject to approval: The Committee will consider the following—
4. Instruments subject to annulment: The Committee will consider the following—
5. Instruments not laid before the Parliament: The Committee will consider the following—
6. Instruments not subject to parliamentary procedure: The Committee will consider the following—
7. Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Bill The Committee will consider the Scottish Government’s response to its Stage 1 report. 8. Scotland Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will consider the contents of a draft report. Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 22 February, it is expected that the Committee will consider Scottish statutory instruments. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin.
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