BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 22/2015 Today’s Business Tuesday 3 February 2015

Summary of Today’s Business

Meetings of Committees

9.45 am Health and Sport Committee the Robert Burns Room (CR1) 10.00 am Education and Culture Committee the James Clerk Maxwell Room (CR4) 10.00 am Justice Committee the Mary Fairfax Somerville Room (CR2) 10.00 am Welfare Reform Committee the David Livingstone Room (CR6) 11.30 am Delegated Powers and Law Reform the Sir Alexander Committee Fleming Room (CR3) ______

Meeting of the Parliament

2.00 pm Time for Reflection followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Topical Questions followed by Stage 1 Debate: Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill followed by Financial Resolution: Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business – S4M-12078 James Dornan: 100 Years of Library

For full details of today’s business, see Section A. ______

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Business Bulletin: Tuesday 3 February 2015 Section A – Today’s Business

Meetings of Committees

All meetings take place in the , unless otherwise specified. Contact details for Committee Clerks are provided at the end of the Bulletin.

Health and Sport Committee 4th Meeting, 2015

The Committee will meet at 9.45 am in the Robert Burns Room (CR1) 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 5 in private. 2. Appointment of European Union Reporter: The Committee will appoint a member to serve as its European Union Reporter. 3. Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1, in round-table format, from— Jennifer Buchan, Celebrant, Humanist Society Scotland; Dr Gordon Macdonald, Parliamentary Officer, CARE for Scotland; Dr Peter Saunders, Campaign Director, Care Not Killing; Dr Bob Scott, Campaign Spokesperson, My Life, My Death, My Choice; Sheila Duffy, Press Officer, Friends at the End (FATE); and then from— Professor Sheila McLean, Emeritus Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine; Dr Sally Witcher, Chief Executive Officer, Inclusion Scotland; Catherine Farrelly, Alliance Member, Scottish Youth Alliance; Dr Peter Bennie, Chair of BMA Scotland, British Medical Association; Tanith Muller, Parliamentary and Campaigns Manager, Parkinson’s UK in Scotland. 4. Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill (in private): The Committee will consider the main themes arising from the oral evidence heard earlier in the meeting. 5. Sport – the Commonwealth Games legacy: The Committee will consider its approach to the Commonwealth Games legacy.

Education and Culture Committee 3rd Meeting, 2015

The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in the James Clerk Maxwell Room (CR4) 1. Curriculum for Excellence: The Committee will take evidence from— Dr Janet Brown, Chief Executive, Scottish Qualifications Authority; Larry Flanagan, General Secretary, Educational Institute of Scotland; Graeme Logan, Strategic Director for School Years, Education Scotland; Jane Peckham, National Official (Scotland), National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers;

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Robert Macmillan, Acting President, Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association; and then from— , Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, and Alan Johnston, Deputy Director, Learning Directorate, Scottish Government; Dr Janet Brown, Chief Executive, Scottish Qualifications Authority; Graeme Logan, Strategic Director for School Years, Education Scotland. 2. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instrument— Children (Performances and Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (SSI 2014/372). 3. European Union Engagement: The Committee will appoint a European Union Reporter and consider its EU priorities.

Justice Committee 5th Meeting, 2015

The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in the Mary Fairfax Somerville Room (CR2) 1. Decisions on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. 2. Public petitions: The Committee will consider the following petitions— PE1280 by Dr Kenneth Faulds and Julie Love on fatal accident inquiries; PE1370 by Dr Jim Swire, Professor Robert Black QC, Robert Forrester, Father Patrick Keegans and Iain McKie on Justice for Megrahi; PE1427 by Robert Kirkwood on behalf of Leith Links Residents’ Association on multi-party actions; PE1479 by Andrew Muir on complaints about solicitors; PE1501 by Stuart Graham on public inquiries into self-inflicted and accidental deaths following suspicious death investigations; PE1510 by Jody Curtis on the closure of police, fire and non-emergency service centres north of Dundee; PE1511 by Laura Ross on the decision made by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to close Inverness control room. 3. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instruments— Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 (Prescribed Relatives) Order 2014 (SSI 2014/360); Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/1). 4. EU engagement: The Committee will consider a draft report to the European and External Relations Committee on the EU engagement work it undertook during 2014 and consider and agree its EU priorities for 2015-16. 5. Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the evidence received on the Bill in order to inform the drafting of its Stage 1 report.

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Welfare Reform Committee 3rd Meeting, 2015

The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in the David Livingstone Room (CR6) 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 3 in private. 2. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland: The Committee will meet with the Rt Hon David Mundell MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland, to discuss the welfare proposals contained in the Smith Agreement, as well as the link between food bank usage and welfare reforms and will take evidence from— Rt Hon David Mundell MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland, UK Government; Richard Cornish, Devolution Director, and Pete Searle, Strategy Director - Working Age Benefits, Department for Work and Pensions. 3. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland: The Committee will consider the evidence received from the Rt Hon David Mundell MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland.

Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 5th Meeting, 2015

The Committee will meet at 11.30 am in the Sir Alexander Fleming Room (CR3) 1. Decisions on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 5 and 6 in private. 2. Instruments subject to affirmative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 [draft]; National Health Service Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 [draft]; Police Pensions (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 [draft]; Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 [draft]; Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Sub-sale Development Relief and Multiple Dwellings Relief) (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft]. 3. Instruments subject to negative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Plant Health (Scotland) Amendment Order 2015 (SSI 2015/10); Revenue Scotland (First Planning Period) Order 2015 (SSI 2015/16). 4. Instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 4 and Savings Provisions) Order 2015 (SSI 2015/14 (C.3)); Landfill Tax (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2015 (SSI 2015/17 (C.4));

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Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2015 (SSI 2015/18 (C.5)). 5. Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider a draft report to the Health and Sport Committee. 6. Report on instruments considered during the second quarter of the parliamentary year 2014-15: The Committee will consider a draft of its second quarterly report for the parliamentary year 2014-15

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Meeting of the Parliament

2.00 pm Time for Reflection – Ms Samina Ansari, Employability Co- ordinator, Amina, the Muslim Women’s Resource Centre, followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Topical Questions

1. Alex Johnstone: To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take in response to the oil and gas summit in Aberdeen on 2 February 2015. (S4T-00926)

2. John Mason: To ask the Scottish Government what impact the recent Celtic versus Rangers match had on police resources. (S4T-00920) followed by Stage 1 Debate: Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill

S4M-12220 Marco Biagi: Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill—That the Parliament agrees to the general principles of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill. followed by Financial Resolution: Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill

S4M-12113 : Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill: Financial Resolution—That the Parliament, for the purposes of any Act of the Scottish Parliament resulting from the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill, agrees to any expenditure of a kind referred to in Rule 9.12.3(b) of the Parliament’s Standing Orders arising in consequence of the Act. followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions

5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business

Debate on the subject of—

S4M-12078 James Dornan: 100 Years of Langside Library— That the Parliament congratulates Langside Library on its centenary celebrations; understands that Langside Library was the last library in Scotland built with funds from Andrew Carnegie and the first in the city to let people take their own books from the shelves instead of requesting them from the counter; notes that the library is host to the famous Maurice Greiffenhagen picture of Mary Queen of Scots at the Battle of Langside, depicting her viewing the scene of the battle from the

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top of the hill where the Langside monument now sits; notes that the library now has drop-in services for Citizens Advice, Macmillan Cancer, and provides bounce and rhyme sessions, storytime sessions and a weekly coffee morning, and considers the changes that Langside Library has undertaken over the last decades to become a cultural and learning hub in the community represent a particularly fine example of the changes being made to the library sector across Scotland.

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