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At its meeting on 2 June 2009, the Equal Opportunities Committee agreed to focus its scrutiny of the draft budget on the issue of equal pay claims in the NHS.

Written evidence

The Committee wrote to various organisations to request written evidence. These submissions and the written submissions received from those who gave oral evidence can be found below:

• Audit Scotland (26KB pdf posted 04.11.2009)
• Audit Scotland supplementary evidence (15KB pdf posted 04.11.2009)
• Equality and Human Rights Commission (29KB pdf posted 04.11.2009)
• Royal College of Nursing (15KB pdf posted 04.11.2009)
• Health Workforce Directorate, Scottish Government (42KB pdf posted 04.11.2009)
• Scottish Government supplementary evidenc (21KB pdf posted 04.11.2009)
• UNISON (55KB pdf posted 04.11.2009)
• UNISON supplementary evidence (15KB pdf posted 04.11.2009)

Oral evidence

The Committee has held the following oral evidence sessions on the inquiry:

6 October 2009

• Agenda and papers
• Official Report
• Minute of Proceedings

22 September 2009

• Agenda and papers
• Official Report
• Minute of Proceedings

8 September 2009

• Agenda and papers
• Official Report
• Minute of Proceedings

On 4 December 2009, the Finance Committee published its report on Scottish Government's Draft Budget for 2010-11. The Equal Opportunities Committee report to the Finance Committee can be found here.

The following response was received from the Scottish Government on the Committee's report

12 February 2010 from Director-General Health and Chief Executive NHS Scotland (194KB pdf posted 15.02.2010)

For specific information, please contact Rebecca Lamb, Assitant Clerk to the Committee on 0131 348 5213 or email equal.opportunities@scottish.parliament.uk