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BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 137/2015 Thursday 24 September 2015 BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 137/2015 Thursday 24 September 2015 Summary of Today’s Business Meetings of Committees 9.30 am Devolution (Further Powers) Committee the Mary Fairfax Somerville Room (CR2) 9.30 am Equal Opportunities Committee the James Clerk Maxwell Room (CR4) 9.30 am Standards, Procedures and Public the David Livingstone Appointments Committee Room (CR6) 10.00 am National Galleries of Scotland Bill the Sir Alexander Committee Fleming Room (CR3) ___________________________________________________________________ Meeting of the Parliament 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 11.40 am General Questions 12.00 pm First Minister’s Questions 12.30 pm Members’ Business – S4M-14183 John Finnie: The Postcode Penalty 2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.30 pm Stage 1 Debate: Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Bill followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time For full details of today’s business, see Section A. For full details of the future business, see sections B and C. ___________________________________________________________________ 1 Contents The sections which appear in today’s Business Bulletin are in bold Section A: Today’s Business - Meetings of Committees - Meeting of the Parliament Section B: Future Meetings of the Parliament Section C: Future Meetings of Committees Section D: Oral Questions - Questions selected for First Minister’s Questions - Questions selected for response by Ministers and junior Scottish Ministers at Question Time Section E: Written Questions – new questions for written answer Section F: Motions and Amendments Section G: Bills - New Bills introduced - New amendments to Bills - Members’ Bills proposals Section H: New Documents – new documents laid before the Parliament and committee reports published Section I: Petitions – new public petitions Section J: Progress of Legislation – progress of Bills and subordinate legislation Section K: Corrections to the Official Report 2 Business Bulletin: Thursday 24 September 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. Devolution (Further Powers) Committee 23rd Meeting, 2015 The Committee will meet at 9.30 am in the Mary Fairfax Somerville Room (CR2) 1. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedules 4 and 5) Order 2015 [draft] from— Joe FitzPatrick, Minister for Parliamentary Business, and Roddy Angus, Policy Officer, Elections and Constitution Division, Scottish Government. 2. Subordinate legislation: Joe FitzPatrick (Minister for Parliamentary Business) to move— S4M-14274—That the Devolution (Further Powers) Committee recommends that the Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedules 4 and 5) Order 2015 [draft] be approved. 3. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether its consideration of a draft report on parliamentary oversight of inter- governmental relations should be taken in private at future meetings. Equal Opportunities Committee 16th Meeting, 2015 The Committee will meet at 9.30 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. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the Qualifying Civil Partnership Modification (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft] from— Marco Biagi, Minister for Local Government and Community Empowerment; Simon Stockwell, Family and Property Law, and Neel Mojee, Solicitor, Scottish Government. 3. Subordinate legislation: Marco Biagi (Minister for Local Government and Community Empowerment) to move—S4M-14271—That the Equal Opportunities Committee recommends that the Qualifying Civil Partnership Modification (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft] be approved. 4. Age and Social Isolation: The Committee will consider a draft report. 5. Work programme: The Committee will consider its work programme. 3 Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee 14th Meeting, 2015 The Committee will meet at 9.30 am in the David Livingstone Room (CR6) 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 and 5 in private. 2. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take future consideration of a report from the Commissioner, and its own draft report on the complaint, in private at a future meeting. The Committee will also decide whether its consideration of Consolidation Bills should be taken in private at future meetings. 3. Inquiry into committee reform: The Committee will take evidence from— Jackson Carlaw; Murdo Fraser; Patrick Harvie; Hugh Henry; Michael Russell. 4. Complaint: The Committee will consider a report from the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland. 5. Inquiry into committee reform: The Committee will consider its approach to the next stage in its inquiry. 6. Inquiry into committee reform (in private): The Committee will consider the evidence heard earlier in the meeting. 7. Inquiry into procedures for considering legislation (in private): The Committee will consider a response from the Scottish Government on its inquiry report. National Galleries of Scotland Bill Committee 1st Meeting, 2015 The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in the Sir Alexander Fleming Room (CR3) 1. Declaration of interests: Members of the Committee will be invited to declare any relevant interests and to make declarations of impartiality. 2. Choice of Convener: The Committee will choose its Convener. 3. Choice of Deputy Convener: The Committee will choose its Deputy Convener. 4. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 6 in private. 5. National Galleries of Scotland Bill - witness expenses: The Committee will be invited to delegate to the Convener responsibility for arranging for the SPCB to pay, under Rule 12.4.3, any expenses of witnesses on the Bill. 6. National Galleries of Scotland Bill: The Committee will consider its approach to the scrutiny of the Bill at Preliminary Stage. 4 Meeting of the Parliament 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 11.40 am General Questions 1. John Finnie: To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Home Office regarding proposals in the forthcoming Immigration Bill for landlords to carry out checks of tenants’ immigration status and evict undocumented migrants. (S4O-04628) 2. Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will extend the planning moratorium on fracking to include onshore underground coal gasification installations. (S4O-04629) 3. Annabel Goldie: To ask the Scottish Government what its medium-term strategy is for higher education. (S4O-04630) 4. Patrick Harvie: To ask the Scottish Government what work it has undertaken in the last year on the currency options for Scotland, either in the current constitutional context or in the future. (S4O-04631) 5. Mary Fee: To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase the availability of rail travel in the West Scotland region. (S4O-04632) 6. Graeme Dey: To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to address the issue of new psychoactive substances. (S4O-04633) 7. Roderick Campbell: To ask the Scottish Government what steps it can take to improve the safety of passengers on trains. (S4O-04634) 8. Chic Brodie: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update regarding Prestwick’s bid to be the UK’s first spaceport. (S4O-04635) 9. Claudia Beamish: To ask the Scottish Government how many small businesses have successfully bid for local authority contracts in the last year. (S4O-04636) 10. Claire Baker: [Withdrawn] 12.00 pm First Minister’s Questions 1. Kezia Dugdale: To ask the First Minister what engagements she has planned for the rest of the day. (S4F-02966) 2. Ruth Davidson: To ask the First Minister when she will next meet the Secretary of State for Scotland. (S4F-02959) 3. Willie Rennie: To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet. (S4F-02958) 5 4. Roderick Campbell: To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government is doing to assist research into dementia. (S4F-02962) 5. Cara Hilton: To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to the recent report by Action for Children that one in every six foster children in Scotland moves homes two or more times a year. (S4F-02973) 6. Liz Smith: To ask the First Minister what discussions the Scottish Government has had with the Scottish Rugby Union about the safety of pupils playing rugby in schools. (S4F-02960) 12.30 pm Members’ Business Debate on the subject of— S4M-14183 John Finnie: The Postcode Penalty—That the Parliament welcomes the publication of Citizens Advice Scotland’s report, The Postcode Penalty: The Distance Travelled; notes with concern the continuing problems highlighted in the report relating to the delivery of online shopping to people in the Highlands and Islands; understands that, while fewer online retailers now impose a surcharge for delivery, those who do have increased these charges by 17.6% for customers in the Highlands and 15.8% for island residents since 2012; welcomes the report’s recommendations, including extending the road equivalent tariff to cover delivery vehicles on ferries and the proposal to encourage delivery to ferries in partnership with CalMac,
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