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I will suspend proceedings for 10 minutes for a comfort break.

Section 5—Offence of influencing, preventing access or causing harassment etc. in area visible or audible from safe access zone

Amendment 52 moved—[Meghan Gallacher].

I call Ms Hamilton to wind up.

I call the minister to wind up.

I call Meghan Gallacher to wind up and press or seek to withdraw amendment 51.

I call Meghan Gallacher.

Good morning, and welcome to the 17th meeting in 2024 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received apologies from Ruth Maguire, and James Dornan is joining us remotely as her substitute.

Our only agenda item is consideration of the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill at stage 2. As Gillian Mackay is the member in charge of the bill, she will not participate as a committee member in the committee’s stage 2 proceedings, by virtue of rule 9.13A.2(b) of the standing orders. Ross Greer is attending in her place as a committee substitute by virtue of rule 12.2A.2. By virtue of rule 12.2.3(a), Gillian Mackay is participating in the meeting as the member in charge of the bill. I also welcome the Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health.

For anyone who is watching, I will briefly explain the procedure that we will follow during today’s proceedings. Members should have with them a copy of the bill as introduced; the marshalled list of amendments, which sets out the amendments in the order in which they will be disposed of; and the groupings of amendments document, which sets out the amendments in the order in which they will be debated. For anyone who is observing, I note that those documents are available on the bill’s page on the Scottish Parliament’s website.

There will be one debate on each group of amendments. In each debate, I will call the member who lodged the first amendment in the group to speak to and move that amendment and to speak to all the other amendments in the group. I will then call other members with amendments in the group to speak to but not move their amendments and, if they wish, to speak to other amendments in the group. I will then call any other members who wish to speak in the debate. Members who wish to speak should indicate by catching my or the clerk’s attention. I will then call the member in charge of the bill, then the minister, if they have not already spoken in the debate.

Finally, I will call the member who moved the first amendment in the group to wind up and to indicate whether he or she wishes to press the amendment or to seek to withdraw it. If the amendment is pressed, I will put the question on it. Later amendments in a group will not be debated again when they are reached. If they are moved, I will put the question on them straight away. If a member wishes to withdraw an amendment after it has been moved and debated, I will ask whether any other member objects. If there is an objection, I will immediately put the question on the amendment.

If any member does not wish to move their amendment when it is called, they should say, “Not moved.” In that situation, any other member present may move the amendment. If no one moves it, I will immediately call the next amendment on the marshalled list.

If there is a division, only committee members are entitled to vote. Voting is by a show of hands. It is important that members keep their hands raised clearly until the clerks have recorded their names.

The committee is required to consider and decide on each section of and schedule to the bill and the long title. I will put the question on each of those provisions at the appropriate point.

Before section 1

Amendment 42, in the name of Rachael Hamilton, is in a group on its own.

The result of the division is: For 1, Against 5, Abstentions 2.

Amendment 42 disagreed to.

Section 1—Meaning of “protected premises”

Before I invite Ruth Maguire to ask her questions, I should draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of members’ interests, which notes that I hold a bank nurse contract with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

A number of members have supplementary questions, but I will first ask for a point of clarity. Who does UKVIA actually represent?