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Seòmar agus comataidhean

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee


Agenda: 22 November 2023

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

17th Meeting, 2023

Start time: 10:30am
Location: T1.40-CR5 The Smith Room
Agenda items:

  1. Decision on taking business in private
  2. Consideration of continued petitions
  3. Consideration of new petitions
  4. Consideration of evidence

Agenda published: Friday, 17 November 2023 04:01pm

Full agenda and available meeting papers


1. Decision on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private.


2. Consideration of continued petitions

The Committee will consider PE1947: Address Scotland's culture of youth violence, taking evidence from—

Dr Fern Gillon, Research Associate, University of Glasgow

Dr Susan Batchelor, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Glasgow

and then consider—

PE1854: Review the adult disability payment eligibility criteria for people with mobility needs;

PE1931: Improve the R100 rollout by prioritising properties who currently have speeds of less than 5 Mbps;

PE1936: Remove potholes from Scotland's roads;

PE1958: Extend aftercare for previously looked after young people, and remove the continuing care age cap;

PE1970: Create an online account for parents to manage the 1140 hours of Early Learning and Childcare funding; and

PE1997: Introduce mandatory braille labelling for food products sold in Scotland.

Papers for this item:

2 private papers will be discussed during this agenda item


3. Consideration of new petitions

The Committee will consider the following new petitions—

PE2042: Abolish car parking charges for all Forestry and Land Scotland sites;

PE2045: Lower the cervical cancer smear test age in Scotland to 16; and

PE2047: Make malicious false allegations a hate crime.

Papers for this item:


4. Consideration of evidence

The Committee will consider the evidence it heard on PE1947: Address Scotland's culture of youth violence.