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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People
Meeting date: 8 February 2022
David Torrance
How will the Scottish Government focus on addressing poverty among young adults—especially those who cannot live with their parents, who are often affected most by poverty?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People
Meeting date: 8 February 2022
David Torrance
You mentioned the planning process for care leavers. In her evidence to the committee, Helen Happer from the Care Inspectorate said that the planning process for care leavers is “out of date.” Will you expand on your previous answer by saying how the Scottish Government will make improvements to the process?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Continued Petitions
Meeting date: 2 February 2022
David Torrance
I was just going to agree with my colleague, Ruth Maguire.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Continued Petitions
Meeting date: 2 February 2022
David Torrance
Considering the evidence from the Scottish Government, Police Scotland and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, I do not know whether we can take the petition any further, so I would like to close it under rule 15.7 of standing orders.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
New Petition
Meeting date: 2 February 2022
David Torrance
I would like to keep the petition open. We should write to the charities Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK to seek their views on what the petitioner is calling for but also to seek their views on how improvements by the Scottish Government will affect payments for people.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Continued Petitions
Meeting date: 2 February 2022
David Torrance
Like you, convener, I was disappointed that we did not get anything back from the Scottish Government. Could we invite the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands to give us evidence on the questions that have been raised? The evidence that has been put before us is concerning.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Continued Petitions
Meeting date: 2 February 2022
David Torrance
The submissions are very detailed, but there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered. Could we invite the Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport to provide evidence to the committee?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Continued Petitions
Meeting date: 2 February 2022
David Torrance
I am like my colleagues in that I am very interested in the petition as somebody who has been there from the very start in relation to the mesh cases. It is important that we get to the bottom of the matter. Rather than write to the chief medical officer, could we ask him to give evidence? We could invite somebody from the hospital in Canada to give evidence to the committee, too, so that we could ask questions. Let us just push the petition on and make progress on it.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Continued Petitions
Meeting date: 2 February 2022
David Torrance
I suggest that we write to ask NatureScot whether it routinely provides information about the conservation objectives it is seeking to achieve when rejecting a licence application and whether it plans to do so in the future.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Continued Petitions
Meeting date: 2 February 2022
David Torrance
Could we write to the Minister for Community Safety to ask for an update on how she got on with the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service?
