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Chamber and committees

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee


Agenda: 15 June 2022

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

11th Meeting, 2022

Start time: 10:00am
Location: T1.40-CR5 The Smith Room
Agenda items:

  1. Scottish Government response to the Expert Working Group report on Institutionalising Participatory and Deliberative Democracy
  2. Consideration of continued petitions
  3. Consideration of new petitions
  4. Consideration of continued petitions

Agenda published: Monday, 13 June 2022 11:11am

Full agenda and available meeting papers


1. Scottish Government response to the Expert Working Group report on Institutionalising Participatory and Deliberative Democracy

The Committee will take evidence from George Adam, Minister for Parliamentary Business, Doreen Grove, Head of Open Government, and Gerald Byrne, Team Leader, Constitutional Policy, Scottish Government.

Papers for this item:

2 private papers will be discussed during this agenda item


2. Consideration of continued petitions

The Committee will consider the following continued petitions—

PE1845: Agency to advocate for the healthcare needs of rural Scotland
PE1890: Find solutions to recruitment and training challenges for rural healthcare in Scotland
PE1915: Reinstate Caithness County Council and Caithness NHS Board
PE1924: Complete an emergency in-depth review of Women's Health services in Caithness & Sutherland

Papers for this item:


3. Consideration of new petitions

The Committee will consider the following new petitions—

PE1932: Ban smoking in Scotland and develop a strategy for vaping
PE1933: Allow the Fornethy Survivors to access Scotland’s redress scheme

Papers for this item:


4. Consideration of continued petitions

The Committee will consider the following continued petitions—

PE1864: Increase the ability of communities to influence planning decisions for onshore windfarms, and will take evidence from Tom Arthur, Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth, Andy Kinnaird, Head of Transforming Planning, and Neal Rafferty, Senior Adviser, Heat in Buildings Strategy, Scottish Government; and
PE1885: Make offering Community Shared Ownership mandatory for all windfarm development planning proposals, and will take evidence from Tom Arthur, Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth, Andy Kinnaird, Head of Transforming Planning, and Neal Rafferty, Senior Adviser, Heat in Buildings Strategy, Scottish Government.

Papers for this item:

1 private paper will be discussed during this agenda item