BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 318/2012 Monday 29 October 2012 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 Question Time - 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 2 Business Bulletin: Monday 29 October 2012 Section B – Future Meetings of the Parliament Business Programme agreed by the Parliament on 24 October 2012 Tuesday 30 October 2012 2.00 pm Time for Reflection – Pastor John Leitch, Glenboig Christian Fellowship followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Topical Questions (if selected) followed by Scottish Labour Party Business: The Future of Scotland followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business – S4M-04509 Hugh Henry: Protection of Workers Bill (for text of motion see Section F) Wednesday 31 October 2012 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth (for text of Portfolio Questions see Section D of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 25 October 2012) followed by Stage 3 Proceedings: Local Government Finance (Unoccupied Properties etc.) (Scotland) Bill followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.30 pm Decision Time 3 followed by Members’ Business – S4M-03413 Roderick Campbell: The Vivarium Trust and Co-housing for Older People (for text of motion see Section F) Thursday 1 November 2012 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 11.40 am General Questions (for text of General Questions see Section D of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 25 October 2012) 12.00 pm First Minister’s Questions 12.30 pm Members’ Business – S4M-04418 Kenneth Gibson: Time to Introduce Presumed Consent (for text of motion see Section F) 2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.30 pm Scottish Government Debate: Drink Driving followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time Tuesday 6 November 2012 2.00 pm Time for Reflection followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Topical Questions (if selected) followed by Scottish Government Business followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Wednesday 7 November 2012 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions Rural Affairs and the Environment Justice and the Law Officers 4 followed by Scottish Government Business followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Thursday 8 November 2012 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 11.40 am General Questions 12.00 pm First Minister’s Questions 12.30 pm Members’ Business 2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.30 pm Scottish Government Business followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time 5 Business Bulletin: Monday 29 October 2012 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 Health and Sport Committee 30 October 2012 29th Meeting, 2012 The Committee will meet at 9.30 am in Committee Room 4 1. Draft Budget Scrutiny 2013-2014 The Committee will take evidence on the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2013-2014 from— Alex Neil, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Well-being, John Matheson, Director of Health Finance and Information, and Derek Feeley, Director General Health and Social Care and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland, Scottish Government. 2. Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the Bill at Stage 2 Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 6 November, the Committee expects to consider its approach to Petition PE1384 regarding speech and language therapists and its approach to future work on access to new medicines. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Education and Culture Committee 30 October 2012 27th Meeting, 2012 The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 2 1. Broadcasting: The Committee will take evidence from— Paul McManus, Scottish Organiser, Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU); 7 Peter Murray, Scottish Representative on the Executive Council, National Union of Journalists. 2. Work programme (in private): The Committee will consider its work programme. Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 6 November, the Committee will consider a draft report on the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2013-14. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Justice Committee 30 October 2012 30th Meeting, 2012 The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 6 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private. 2. Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will take evidence on legislative consent memorandum LCM(S4)13.1 from— Roseanna Cunningham, Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs; Brian Ironside, Assistant Director - National Operations, and Jim O’Neill, Senior Legal Policy Manager, Scottish Prison Service. 3. Draft Budget Scrutiny 2013-14: The Committee will take evidence on the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2013-14 from— John Logue, Procurator Fiscal, East of Scotland, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service; Stuart Naismith, Convener, Access to Justice Committee, Law Society of Scotland; Brian Carroll, TUS Scottish Court Service Branch Secretary, Public and Commercial Services Union; Eric McQueen, Chief Executive, Scottish Court Service; Susan Gallagher, Deputy Chief Executive, Business Delivery, Victim Support Scotland; and then from— Sean McKendrick, Vice-convener, Criminal Justice Standing Committee, Association of Directors of Social Work; Kate Donegan, Governor, Cornton Vale; Brigadier Hugh Monro, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland; Colin McConnell, Chief Executive, Scottish Prison Service; Anne Pinkman, Convener, Scottish Working Group on Women’s Offending. 4. Statute Law (Repeals) Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will consider its approach to the legislative consent memorandum lodged by Kenny MacAskill (LCM(S4)16.1). 8 Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 6 November, the Committee expects to consider the 20013-14 budget; oral evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Justice on the Commission for Women Offenders and its work programme. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Public Petitions Committee 30 October 2012 15th Meeting, 2012 The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 1 1. Declaration of interests: Adam Ingram will be invited to declare any relevant interests. 2. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 6 and 7 in private. 3. PE1367 - banning mosquito devices: The Committee will take evidence from— Roseanna Cunningham, Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs and John Brownlie, Policy Manager, Community Safety Unit, Scottish Government 4. Consideration of new petitions: The Committee will consider— PE1442 by Douglas Reid on the body upon death becomes part of the estate and take evidence from— Douglas Reid; Matthew Turner; Leona Turner. and will then consider— PE1437 by Les Wallace on recycling in schools and take evidence from— Les Wallace; 5. Consideration of current petitions: The Committee will consider— PE1351 by Chris Daly and Helen Holland on time for all to be heard; PE1434 by Nairn McDonald on additional funding for sport facilities and a minimum level of sports facilities. 6. Consideration of evidence - PE1367 - banning mosquito devices: The Committee will consider the evidence received at agenda item 2 and will decide what action to take in relation to the petition. 7. PE1393 - tackling child sexual exploitation in Scotland: The Committee will consider a paper by the Clerk. Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 13 November, the Committee expects to consider petitions on harnessing the undoubted talent of public sector staff, improving services for people with mental illness, betting and loan shops in deprived communities, bonds of caution, updating the Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act 1855, DVLA local office closures, a national donor milk bank service and improvements for the A83. 9 For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin.