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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 6 July 2025
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Clare Haughey

I am sorry to labour the point, but I want to make sure that I am absolutely clear on this. This is about enshrining the timescales in law.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Interests

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Clare Haughey

As this is Annie Wells’s first appearance as a substitute member, I also ask her to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee’s remit.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Clare Haughey

I have another point for clarification, which I have asked about at previous committee meetings. I am keen to hear what you mean by the term “health professional”—that is, the person who would give the determination or the diagnosis. It is a very wide-ranging term. Should its scope be narrow or wide?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Clare Haughey

Do you think that there is a danger in having a stand-alone bill that deals with a specific group of patients who are seeking treatment and need a specific diagnosis and determination? Might that muddy the waters for the services that currently provide wraparound support to people who are seeking help with addiction?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Clare Haughey

You have mentioned several times that the bill must include a budget uplift but that you cannot tie the hands of future Governments. I am not sure how those things marry. Will you explain that?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Clare Haughey

We have explored a lot of the issues around that. I am putting them all aside and looking purely at the finances here. Would putting that uplift into the Scottish Government’s budget outwith a budget bill not be tying the hands of the Government, given that it would create a legal commitment to have that increase in drug and alcohol budgets going forward regardless of the party that is in Government and the budget that it has?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Clare Haughey

So, if this legislation is passed, would it then need to be repealed before a budget paper was passed for that budget line to be taken out of the budget?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Clare Haughey

That is the clarification that I was after.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Interests

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Clare Haughey

Thank you, Ms Wells.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Clare Haughey

The second item is a decision on whether to take items 6 and 7 in private. Do members agree to do so?

Members indicated agreement.