Seòmar agus comataidhean

The result of the division is: For 2, Against 8, Abstentions 0.

Amendment 96 disagreed to.

Amendment 15 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 14—Complaints service

The result of the division is: For 3, Against 7, Abstentions 0.

Amendment 99 disagreed to.

Amendment 17 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 16—Directions to care boards

Amendment 18 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 17—Removal of care board members

Amendment 19 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 18—Transfer of care board’s functions in an emergency

Amendment 20 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 19—Transfer of care board’s functions due to service failure

Amendment 21 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 20—Emergency intervention order

Amendment 22 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 21—Application for emergency intervention order

Amendment 23 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 22—Variation and revocation of emergency intervention order

Amendment 24 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 23—Research

Amendment 25 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 24—Training

Amendment 26 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 25—Support for other activities

Amendment 27 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 26—Compulsory purchase

Amendment 28 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 27—Power to transfer functions from local authorities

Amendment 29 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Schedule 3—Enactments giving rise to transferable local authority functions

Amendment 30 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 28—Power to bring aspects of healthcare into the National Care Service

Amendment 31 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 29—Power to re-organise the National Care Service

Amendment 32 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 30—Consultation before bringing children’s and justice services into the National Care Service

Amendment 33 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 31—Transfers of staff

Amendment 34 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 32—Transfers of property and liabilities etc

Amendment 35 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 33—Interpretation of expressions about functional transfers

Amendment 36 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 34—Consequential modifications

Amendment 37 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Schedule 4—Modifications in connection with Part 1

Amendment 38 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

Section 35—Interpretation of Part 1

Amendment 39 moved—[Maree Todd]—and agreed to.

After section 35

Good morning to you, cabinet secretary, and to your officials.

You will have heard us discussing the issue of naloxone with the previous panel. The people’s panel called for an additional public awareness campaign for the distribution and use of the substance, and you stated in your response to the report that you will give further consideration to that recommendation and discuss it with partners. Can you provide the committee with more detail of what that might involve and, possibly, a timescale for that work?

I have another short supplementary question, but I should first declare an interest as someone who holds a bank nurse contract with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

I want to ask about an issue that was raised by the people’s panel—I suppose it comes under the theme of harm reduction—which is GPs being unaware of the MAT standards, which were introduced in 2021. When I went on the Turas website, I saw quite comprehensive learning resources and information, including the package “Working with Substance Use, Trauma and Mental Health—Resources and Training for the Scottish Workforce”. From my reading, that has been there since 2021, and I would be greatly concerned if GPs had not been accessing it. I wonder whether the cabinet secretary could see whether some of the data that sits behind that could be disaggregated, so that we could see who has been accessing it and, if it is shown that GPs have not been accessing it, perhaps work with the chief medical officer to encourage them to do so. The data on the number of people with mental health issues who also have substance misuse issues—and who, indeed, have suffered trauma—is out there, and the fact is that quite comprehensive training is available.

You also called for MAT standards to

“cover all drugs causing harm”,

not just opiates. Can you tell us more about the evidence that you heard on why that is needed? What difference would that make to the treatment offer?

Good morning. You have called for all public and third sector services to be

“enabled and supported to share information including the justice system.”

I am mindful that you have said that not everyone has such information to share, so you might want to address that point. Why did you make that recommendation? What needs to be done to support that?

In view of the letter from the finance committee and its determinations, what the Scottish Government has put on record and the omissions that you have alluded to today in relation to your financial memorandum, will you be looking to review your financial memorandum?

The bill would require someone to be “ordinarily resident” in Scotland for 12 months before they would be eligible for assisted dying. Last week, in giving evidence, Police Scotland raised questions about what is meant by the term “ordinarily resident”. I am keen to explore why that term was used and what “ordinarily resident” means in the bill.

We will move straight to questions, beginning with Emma Harper.

Do you think that the bill needs tightening up to define what the phrase means, to address the concerns that were raised at that evidence session about people travelling to Scotland and setting up a temporary address here in order to access assisted dying?