BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 190/2015 Monday 21 December 2015 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: Monday 21 December 2015 Section B – Future Meetings of the Parliament Business Programme agreed by the Parliament on 16 December 2015 Tuesday 5 January 2016 2.00 pm Time for Reflection – Mr Chris Gordon, Community Fundraiser, Bethany Christian Trust followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Topical Questions (if selected) followed by Scottish Government Debate: Supporting Public Services, Tackling Inequality and Growing Scotland’s Economy followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business – S4M-14521 Michael Russell: Celtic Rainforest (for text of motion see Section F of the Business Bulletin for Monday 19 October 2015) Wednesday 6 January 2016 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions Justice and the Law Officers; Rural Affairs, Food and Environment (for text of questions see Section D of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 17 December 2015) followed by Equal Opportunities Committee Debate: Inquiry into Age and Social Isolation (for text of motion S4M-15198 see Section F) followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time 3 followed by Members’ Business – Motion S4M-15085 Neil Findlay: The Need for an Inquiry into Undercover Policing in Scotland (for text of motion see Section F of the Business Bulletin for Tuesday 8 December 2015) Thursday 7 January 2016 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 11.40 am General Questions (for text of questions see Section D of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 17 December 2015) 12.00 pm First Minister’s Questions 12.30 pm Members’ Business – S4M-15065 Christian Allard: Charlie Hebdo (for text of motion see Section F of the Business Bulletin for Monday 7 December 2015) 2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.30 pm Stage 1 Debate: Scottish Elections (Dates) Bill (for text of motion S4M-15221 see Section F) followed by Stage 1 Debate: Lobbying (Scotland) Bill (for text of motion S4M- 15220 see Section F) followed by Financial Resolution: Lobbying (Scotland) Bill (for text of motion S4M-15213 see Section F) followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time Tuesday 12 January 2016 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 4 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Wednesday 13 January 2016 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions Health, Wellbeing and Sport followed by Scottish Government Business followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Thursday 14 January 2016 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 Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time 5 Business Bulletin: Monday 21 December 2015 Section E – Written questions lodged on 18 December 2015 Questions marked with a triangle (Δ) are initiated by the Scottish Government in order to facilitate the provision of information to the Parliament. Questions in which a member has indicated a declarable interest are marked with an "R". S4W-29043 Margaret McCulloch: To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it will give to public opinion when deciding on the future of its moratorium in relation to fracking in Central Scotland. S4W-29044 Bruce Crawford: To ask the Scottish Government how its maternity policy framework addresses the needs of high-risk multiple pregnancies. S4W-29045 Bruce Crawford: To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) stillbirths and (b) neonatal deaths resulted from a multiple pregnancy in 2014. S4W-29046 Bruce Crawford: To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to reduce the proportion of multiple pregnancies that result in a stillbirth or neonatal death. S4W-29047 Bruce Crawford: To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the incorporation of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance on multiple pregnancies into everyday practice on maternity units. S4W-29048 Iain Gray: To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the 2015-16 Autumn Budget Revision proposed a budget of £328.9 million for student support and tuition fee payments and the Draft Budget 2016-17 proposed £301.6 million. S4W-29049 Iain Gray: To ask the Scottish Government whether the difference in the funding for extra places in the student support and tuition fee payments budgets for 2015-16 and 2016-17 means that extra student places originally budgeted for have been reduced. S4W-29050 Iain Gray: To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to use in- year transfers to bring the student support and tuition fee payments budget for 2016- 17 back to £328.9 million and, if so, where it will transfer the money from. S4W-29051 Patricia Ferguson: To ask the Scottish Government whether it has received legal advice as to the competency of the legislative consent memorandum that it submitted on the UK Government’s Trade Union Bill. 7 S4W-29052 Patricia Ferguson: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish any legal advice that it received prior to submitting its legislative consent memorandum on the UK Government’s Trade Union Bill. S4W-29053 Patricia Ferguson: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish any points of disagreement between any legal advice that it has received on its legislative consent memorandum on the UK Government’s Trade Union Bill and the Presiding Officer’s ruling on its competency. S4W-29054 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-28816 by Alex Neil on 17 December 2015, in light of Argyll and Bute Council being bound by guidance on the inshore sea lochs and voes set out in Marine Scotland maps, whether it will move the southern boundary line on those maps for the Seil/Shuna/Melfort lochs from its present location to a line between Ardluing and Craignish. S4W-29055 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Government what the 2015-16 budget is for the Haudagain roundabout improvements; how much has been allocated for (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18, and whether these budgets were revised as a result of the proposals in the Draft Budget 2016-17 and, if so, what the changes were. S4W-29056 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Government on what date work will begin on the Haudagain roundabout improvements. S4W-29057 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Government when the design and development work in preparation for the improvements to the Haudagain roundabout began. S4W-29058 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it, or its agencies, has/have had with the renewables industry in relation to attracting funding from Qatar. S4W-29059 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Qatari Government regarding investment in Scotland from the Qatari sovereign wealth fund. S4W-29060 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government how many times (a) ministers, (b) civil servants and (c) Scottish Government agencies have met ministers and officials of the Qatari Government since May 2011. S4W-29061 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government whether, during meetings with the Qatari Government, it has challenged its human rights record and, if so, what concerns it raised and what the response was. S4W-29062 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government what the purpose is of its engagement with the Qatari Government. S4W-29064 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government who the members are of the GlobalScot network. 8 S4W-29065 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government how many meetings it has had with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency regarding fracking and what specific issues were discussed. S4W-29066 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government how regularly it has met the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to discuss the moratorium on unconventional gas extraction and fracking. S4W-29067 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government when it expects the moratorium on unconventional gas extraction and fracking to end. S4W-29068 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that the inquiry taking place during the moratorium on unconventional gas extraction and fracking should report prior to the Scottish election in 2016. S4W-29069 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency having met regularly with the Department of Energy and Climate Change to discuss fracking and public communications strategies. S4W-29070 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency not recording what was discussed as its meeting with other regulators across the UK.