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BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 16/2013 Monday 28 January 2013 BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 16/2013 Monday 28 January 2013 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 2 Business Bulletin: Monday 28 January 2013 Section B – Future Meetings of the Parliament Business Programme agreed by the Parliament on 23 January 2013 Tuesday 29 January 2013 2.00 pm Time for Reflection – Beth Nicoll and Stevie Low, pupils at St. Machar Academy, Aberdeen followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Topical Questions (if selected) followed by Ministerial Statement: 2nd Report on Policies and Proposals (RPP2) followed by Stage 3 Proceedings: Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Bill (for text of motion S4M-05479 see Section F) followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.30 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business - S4M-05252 James Dornan: Make Young People Your Business (for text of motion see Section F) Wednesday 30 January 2013 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions Rural Affairs and the Environment; Justice and the Law Officers (for text of questions see Section D of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 24 January 2013) followed by Scottish Labour Party Debate: Cost of Living followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time 3 followed by Members’ Business - S4M-05112 Joan McAlpine: South of Scotland Television (for text of motion see Section F) Thursday 31 January 2013 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 11.40 am General Questions (for text of questions see Section D of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 24 January 2013) 12.00 pm First Minister’s Questions 12.30 pm Members’ Business - S4M-04971 Drew Smith: Work Not Play (for text of motion see Section F) 2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.30 pm Scottish Government Debate: Child Benefit followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time Tuesday 5 February 2013 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 6 February 2013 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions Health and Wellbeing followed by Stage 3 Proceedings: Budget (Scotland) (No.2) Bill 4 followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Thursday 7 February 2013 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 28 January 2013 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 29 January 2013 3rd Meeting, 2013 The Committee will meet at 9.45 am in Committee Room 2 1. Access to new medicines evidence session The Committee will take evidence, in round-table format, from— Andy Carver, Prevention and Care Adviser, British Heart Foundation Scotland; Professor David Newby, British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiology and Consultant Cardiologist, NHS Lothian and University of Edinburgh; Keith AA Fox, Duke of Edinburgh British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology, University of Edinburgh; Ian Mackersie, Secretary, and Len Woodward, Treasurer, aHUSUK; Professor Tim Goodship, Professor of Renal Medicine, Newcastle University; Nancy Greig, Network Development Officer, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland, (the ALLIANCE); George Grindlay, Angus Long Term Conditions Support Groups, Lead Facilitator of ALTCSG and Non-Executive Director, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE); and then from— Alastair Kent, Chair, Rare Disease UK; Professor Peter Hillmen, Consultant Haematologist, St James University Hospital, Leeds, and Lesley Loeliger, Founder and Chairman, PNH Scotland, PNH Alliance; Dr Mark Eldon Roberts, Consultant Neurologist, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Joan Fletcher, Family Support Officer, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Association for Glycogen Storage Disease (UK); Marion Ferguson, Ivacaftor Patient Interest Group. 7 2. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instruments— General Pharmaceutical Council (Amendment of Miscellaneous Provisions) Rules Order of Council 2012 SI 2012/3171 Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2013 (SSI 2013/4) 3. European priorities: The Committee will consider its European priorities. Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 5 February, the Committee expects to take evidence on health inequalities; the Committee will also consider Petition PE1384 regarding speech and language therapists. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Education and Culture Committee 29 January 2013 3rd Meeting, 2013 The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 6 1. Inquiry into decision making on whether to take children into care: The Committee will take evidence from— Kit Wyeth, Head of Children’s Hearings Team, Tom McNamara, Team Leader, Children’s Hearings Team, and Hazel Crawford, Programme Manager, Children’s Hearings Reform, Scottish Government. 2. Inquiry into decision making on whether to take children into care: The Committee will consider a note from the clerk. 3. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instrument— The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012. Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 5 February, the Committee will take oral evidence on the Post-16 Education (Scotland) Bill. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. 8 Justice Committee 29 January 2013 3rd Meeting, 2013 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 items 6 and 7 in private. 2. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013 [draft] from— Kenny MacAskill, Cabinet Secretary for Justice; Nigel Graham, Policy Adviser, Criminal Law and Licensing Division, and Craig McGuffie, Principal Legal Officer, Solicitors Criminal Justice, Police and Fire Division, Scottish Government. 3. Subordinate legislation: Kenny MacAskill (Cabinet Secretary for Justice) to move— S4M-05457—That the Justice Committee recommends that the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013 [draft] be approved. 4. Prison visits: Committee members will report back from their recent prison visits. 5. Inquiry into purposeful activity in prison: The Committee will take evidence from— Colin McConnell, Chief Executive, Scottish Prison Service. 6. European Commission Work Programme: The Committee will consider its approach to scrutiny of the European Commission’s Work Programme 2013. 7. Work programme: The Committee will consider its work programme. Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 5 February, the Committee expects to take oral evidence on its inquiry into purposeful activity in prisons and to consider subordinate legislation. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, whose details are provided at the end of the Bulletin. Subordinate Legislation Committee 29 January 2013 4th Meeting, 2013 The Committee will meet at 10.30 am in Committee Room 4 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 8 in private. 2. Instruments subject to affirmative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2013 [draft]. 9 3. Instruments subject to negative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Scottish Road Works Register (Prescribed Fees) Regulations 2013 (SSI 2013/8); Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2013 (SSI 2013/9). 4. Instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Scotland) Order 2013 (SSI 2013/3). 5. Land and Buildings Transaction
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