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Official Report: search what was said in Parliament

The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 22 November 2024
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Independent Review)

Meeting date: 17 September 2024

Joe FitzPatrick

That makes sense, but do you have any idea about when it might be?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Independent Review)

Meeting date: 17 September 2024

Joe FitzPatrick

Just the ones that have been restricted—puberty blockers, but that might be quite coarse language for them.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Independent Review)

Meeting date: 17 September 2024

Joe FitzPatrick

Those are the ones that I mean.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Independent Review)

Meeting date: 17 September 2024

Joe FitzPatrick

Do you have any thoughts on possible timescales?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Independent Review)

Meeting date: 17 September 2024

Joe FitzPatrick

I will go back to the questions that we had earlier, when we were talking about hormone treatment. Other panel members gave us some answers, but we thought that Dr Crighton, who has just arrived, would be more able to give us answers on how young people in Scotland might access clinical trials and what such trials might look like. Thank you, Dr Crighton, for making it along, in spite of the challenges.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

National Performance Framework (Proposed National Outcomes)

Meeting date: 10 September 2024

Joe FitzPatrick

Is the data on what is spent not in the outturn accounts that the finance secretary puts out every year?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

National Performance Framework (Proposed National Outcomes)

Meeting date: 10 September 2024

Joe FitzPatrick

I will pick up on the idea of preventative spend, preventative work and monitoring what is and is not working. This Parliament is responsible for outcomes around health and care, but we do not have control of all the inputs. Decisions that are made in another place—such as the decision to have 14 years of austerity and the decision that is likely to be made today on the winter fuel payment—have an impact on the health of vulnerable people in Scotland. How do we know that the outcomes that we see mean that our preventative work has not worked? Perhaps it has worked, because, due to the actions of Westminster Governments over a number of years, the situation would have been much worse if we had not done that work, even though the outcomes make it look as though it has not worked.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

National Performance Framework (Proposed National Outcomes)

Meeting date: 10 September 2024

Joe FitzPatrick

Briefly, on the point about tracking the spend to ensure that we get the outcomes that we hope for, should we look to any international examples to see whether other places do this better? There will be differences, but can we learn something from them that will help Scotland to do this better?

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee [Draft]

Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill

Meeting date: 5 September 2024

Joe FitzPatrick

No, I am fine, convener.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee [Draft]

Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill

Meeting date: 5 September 2024

Joe FitzPatrick

On that last point, we know that, in the Westminster election that we have just had, a number of people did not manage to cast their vote because they did not have proof of identification. Is there an opportunity to consider whether the UK Government might work with you on a digital polling card, which might help folk who do not have a passport or driving licence and who are too late to apply for something else? Might something come out of that?