2pm

Parliamentary Bureau Motions
2pm

Portfolio Questions

Portfolio: Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands

Michael Marra (S6O-03781)

[Not Lodged]

Alex Rowley (S6O-03782)

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether any further action is required to address reported concerns around the environmental, sustainability and welfare impacts of farmed salmon.

Official Report available for S6O-03782

Clare Adamson (S6O-03783)

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what assessment it has made of the impact of Brexit on Scotland's food and drink sector.

Official Report available for S6O-03783

Fergus Ewing (S6O-03784)

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will increase funding to enable more trees of commercial species to be planted in Scotland.

Official Report available for S6O-03784

James Dornan (S6O-03785)

To ask the Scottish Government what communication it has had with the UK Government, since the general election, regarding the potential impact on Scotland's food and drink sector of the reported proposal for "not for EU" labelling on food and drink products in the UK.

Official Report available for S6O-03785

Willie Coffey (S6O-03786)

To ask the Scottish Government what data it holds on the availability and prominence of Scottish food and drink produce in supermarkets operating in Scotland.

Official Report available for S6O-03786

Patrick Harvie (S6O-03787)

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking in response to reported concerns that the licensing scheme introduced by the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023 is acting as a loophole in the fox hunting ban.

Official Report available for S6O-03787

Jamie Greene (S6O-03788)

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the first statutory National Islands Plan, published in 2019, has been a success.

Official Report available for S6O-03788

Portfolio: Health and Social Care

Fulton MacGregor (S6O-03789)

To ask the Scottish Government what support is in place to help newly qualified paramedics find suitable employment.

Official Report available for S6O-03789

Lorna Slater (S6O-03790)

To ask the Scottish Government how many alcohol-related deaths were reported in the Lothian region in the last year for which data is available.

Official Report available for S6O-03790

Karen Adam (S6O-03791)

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support neurodivergent people, in light of reports of people waiting years for diagnosis, and subsequent access to support and treatment, which is seriously impacting their lives.

Official Report available for S6O-03791

Alexander Stewart (S6O-03792)

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to ensure that diagnostic pathways in Scotland are appropriate for those affected by brain tumours.

Official Report available for S6O-03792

Sharon Dowey (S6O-03793)

To ask the Scottish Government what compensation is available for any families that are paying for private urgent dental treatment due to delays in accessing NHS treatment.

Official Report available for S6O-03793

Katy Clark (S6O-03794)

To ask the Scottish Government what support it can provide to NHS Ayrshire and Arran, in light of reports that the health board requires over £85 million to cover the cost of backdated repairs.

Official Report available for S6O-03794

Mark Griffin (S6O-03795)

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish revised modelling to show any impact of delays to the opening of the remaining National Treatment Centres on bringing down waiting lists, as outlined in its NHS Recovery Plan.

Official Report available for S6O-03795

Rachael Hamilton (S6O-03796)

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the use of locums in local mental health services.

Official Report available for S6O-03796
Scottish Labour Party Debate: Housing Emergency

Anas Sarwar (S6M-14719)

That the Parliament believes that the Scottish Government has failed to respond adequately to the housing emergency that the Parliament declared in May 2024.

Further details available for S6M-14719

Paul McLennan (S6M-14719.4)

As an amendment to motion S6M-14719 in the name of Anas Sarwar (Housing Emergency), leave out from "believes" to end and insert "agrees that Scotland is in a housing emergency; notes the Scottish Government’s ongoing work with partners, including COSLA and the Housing to 2040 Board, on priorities in tackling the housing emergency; highlights the Scottish Government’s commitment to provide £80 million across 2024-25 and 2025-26 to support acquisitions and bring empty social homes back into use, bringing the Affordable Housing Supply Programme investment to almost £600 million this year, and its commitment to £100 million for 2,800 mid-market rent homes; welcomes the investment of £22 million in affordable housing through charitable bonds and the launch of a planning hub to improve capacity and skills; notes the Housing (Scotland) Bill, which includes key measures on preventing homelessness, including action through rent controls, and calls on the UK Government to reverse the 9% capital budget cut, to permanently uprate local housing allowance to the 30th percentile of local rents, and to scrap the so-called bedroom tax in its Autumn Budget."

Further details available for S6M-14719.4

Miles Briggs (S6M-14719.2)

As an amendment to motion S6M-14719 in the name of Anas Sarwar (Housing Emergency), insert at end ", following repeated calls from charities and local authorities to take urgent action to alleviate rising cases of homelessness and to tackle Scotland’s affordable housing shortage; notes that homelessness in Scotland has climbed to its worst level in more than a decade, with over 40,000 applications, and that, out of the 33,619 households assessed as homeless, there were over 15,000 children recorded; recognises that housing is a wholly devolved issue that the Scottish National Party (SNP) administration has mismanaged and exacerbated through rent controls and financial mismanagement, such as cutting £200 million from the housing budget; believes that by working together with developers, local authorities and landlords, more houses could be made available to buy and rent across Scotland; acknowledges that the SNP administration’s cladding remediation scheme has yet to complete work on any affected properties in Scotland and has only spent £9 million of the £97 million given by the UK Government to fix unsafe cladding; understands that the Scottish Government has failed to provide financial support for residents living in properties built with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) that are at risk; notes that the SNP administration has presided over a collapse in the housebuilding sector, with a 17% decrease in all sector starts and completions in 2023-24; echoes the concerns expressed around land supply and the planning system, and that the Scottish Government has failed to produce a clear plan setting out how it will properly fund and implement the policies contained within the fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), and calls on the Scottish Government to take responsibility by addressing this national emergency."

Further details available for S6M-14719.2
Business Motions

Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-14742)

That, subject to the Parliament’s agreement to the general principles of the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill, the Parliament agrees, for the purposes of further consideration of the Bill, that—
(a) consideration of the Bill at stage 2 be completed by Tuesday 29 October 2024;
(b) Stage 3 proceedings take place on Tuesday 5 November 2024;
(c) Rule 9.5.3A be suspended;
(d) Rule 9.5.3B be suspended;
(e) Rule 9.6.3A be suspended;
(f) Rule 9.7.8A be suspended;
(g) Rule 9.7.8B be suspended;
(h) Rule 9.7.9 be suspended;
(i) Rule 9.7.9A be suspended;
(j) Rule 9.10.2 be varied to replace the words “fourth sitting” where they first appear with “sixth”, so that the deadline for lodging a stage 2 amendment will be the sixth day before proceedings; and
(k) Rule 9.10.2A be varied to replace the word “fifth” where it first appears with “second”, so that the deadline for lodging a stage 3 amendment will be the second sitting day before proceedings.

Further details available for S6M-14742

Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-14732)

That the Parliament agrees—
(a) the following programme of business—
Tuesday 8 October 2024
2.00 pm Time for Reflection
followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions
followed by Topical Questions (if selected)
followed by Scottish Government Debate: Challenge Poverty Week
followed by Committee Announcements
followed by Business Motions
followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions
5.00 pm Decision Time
followed by Members’ Business
Wednesday 9 October 2024
2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions
2.00 pm Portfolio Questions: Constitution, External Affairs and Culture, and Parliamentary Business; Justice and Home Affairs
followed by Scottish Green Party Business
followed by Business Motions
followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions
followed by Approval of SSIs (if required)
5.10 pm Decision Time
followed by Members’ Business
Thursday 10 October 2024
11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions
11.40 am General Questions
12.00 pm First Minister's Questions
followed by Members’ Business
2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions
2.30 pm Portfolio Questions: Education and Skills
followed by Stage 1 Debate: Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill
followed by Business Motions
followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions
5.00 pm Decision Time
Tuesday 29 October 2024
2.00 pm Time for Reflection
followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions
followed by Topical Questions (if selected)
followed by Scottish Government Business
followed by Committee Announcements
followed by Business Motions
followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions
5.00 pm Decision Time
followed by Members’ Business
Wednesday 30 October 2024
2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions
2.00 pm Portfolio Questions: Deputy First Minister Responsibilities, Economy and Gaelic; Finance and Local Government
followed by Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Business
followed by Business Motions
followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions
followed by Approval of SSIs (if required)
5.10 pm Decision Time
followed by Members’ Business
Thursday 31 October 2024
11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions
11.40 am General Questions
12.00 pm First Minister's Questions
followed by Members’ Business
2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions
2.30 pm Portfolio Questions: Net Zero and Energy, and Transport
followed by Finance and Public Administration Committee Debate: Scotland’s Commissioner Landscape
followed by Business Motions
followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions
5.00 pm Decision Time
(b) that, for the purposes of Portfolio Questions in the week beginning 7 October 2024, in rule 13.7.3, after the word “except” the words “to the extent to which the Presiding Officer considers that the questions are on the same or similar subject matter or” are inserted.

Further details available for S6M-14732

Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-14733)

That the Parliament agrees that consideration of the Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Bill at stage 2 be completed by 11 October 2024.

Further details available for S6M-14733

Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-14734)

That the Parliament agrees that consideration of the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill at stage 2 be completed by 15 November 2024.

Further details available for S6M-14734
Parliamentary Bureau Motions

Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-14735)

That the Parliament agrees that the Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2024 [draft] be approved.

Further details available for S6M-14735

Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-14736)

That the Parliament agrees that the Criminal Justice Committee be designated as the lead committee in consideration of the Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill at stage 1.

Further details available for S6M-14736
Approval of SSIs (if required)
5:10pm

Decision Time
Members' Business — S6M-14436 Stuart McMillan: Regulation of the Medical Aesthetics Industry in Scotland

Stuart McMillan (S6M-14436)

That the Parliament notes the belief that legislation must be introduced to regulate those operating within the medical aesthetics industry because, at present, only clinics that employ healthcare professionals to offer treatments such as Botox and dermal fillers are regulated by Healthcare Improvement Scotland; considers that this means that lay injectors who are not qualified healthcare professionals are not monitored or regulated by any professional body; recognises the reported growth in demand for medical aesthetics, including in the Greenock and Inverclyde constituency, and believes that regulating the sector would help to improve patient safety; acknowledges the reported physical, mental and emotional impact on members of the public who have endured botched experiences at the hands of lay injectors, and the impact that this can have on the NHS, which, it understands, is where people typically turn to for correctional treatment; considers that these treatments should therefore only be offered to people aged over 18, and that patients should be able to expect that the individual offering these treatments is regulated, and welcomes, therefore, the recent announcement by the Minister for Public Health and Women's Health that the Scottish Government will launch a consultation later in 2024, which, it understands, will include proposals on introducing legislation to regulate the sector in the current parliamentary session.

Further details available for S6M-14436

Committee business

The committee will meet at 9:00am at T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room and will be broadcast on www.scottishparliament.tv.

1. Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the Bill at Stage 2 (Day 1).

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Stephen Imrie on 85931 or at Stephen.Imrie@scottish.parliament.uk

The committee will meet at 9:00am at TG.40-CR1 The Burns Room and will be broadcast on www.scottishparliament.tv.

1. Education (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from—

Megan Farr, Policy Officer, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland
Gavin Yates, Executive Director, Connect
Garvin Sealy, Interim Executive Director, Intercultural Youth Scotland

and then from—

Ken McAra, HM Inspector of Education and Convenor of FDA Education Scotland Section, FDA
Sharon McGuigan, SQA Accreditation Manager and Workplace Representative, Unite the Union
Pauline Rodger, SQA Understanding Standards Project Manager and Workplace Representative, Unite the Union

2. Evidence Session (in private): The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 1.

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Pauline McIntyre on 85252 or at Pauline.McIntyre@parliament.scot

The committee will meet at 9:00am at T4.40-CR2 The Fairfax Somerville Room and will be broadcast on www.scottishparliament.tv.

1. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland: The Committee will take evidence from—

Dr Ralph Bickerdike, Head of Fish Health, Scottish Sea Farms
David Brown, Shetland Seawater Manager, Cooke Scotland
Ben Hadfield, Chief Operating Officer Farming Scotland, Ireland, Faroes and Atlantic Canada, Mowi Scotland
Kimberley McKinnell, Head of Health, Bakkafrost Scotland
Constance Pattillo, Head of Farming Operations, Wester Ross Salmon
Tavish Scott, Chief Executive, Salmon Scotland

2. UK subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider a proposal by the Scottish Government to consent to the UK Government legislating in a devolved area as set out in the following UK statutory instrument proposal—Official Controls (Extension of Transitional Periods) and Plant Health (Frequency Of Checks) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024

3. Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland (in private): The Committee will consider the evidence heard earlier in the meeting.

4. Pre-Budget Scrutiny (in private): The Committee will consider the evidence heard at an earlier meeting.

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Emma Johnston on 85225 or at emma.johnston@parliament.scot

The committee will meet at 9:30am at T1.60-CR4 The Clerk Maxwell Room and will be broadcast on www.scottishparliament.tv.

1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 3 in private.

2. Fair Work Convention: The Committee will take evidence from—

Professor Patricia Findlay, Co-Chair, Fair Work Convention
Helen Martin, Head, Fair Work Convention Secretariat

3. Fair Work Convention: The Committee will consider the evidence heard earlier in the meeting.

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Anne Peat on 85182 or at anne.peat@parliament.scot

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Wednesday 02 October 2024

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Scottish Labour Party Debate: Housing Emergency

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Members' Business — S6M-14436 Stuart McMillan: Regulation of the Medical Aesthetics Industry in Scotland

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