Minutes: 19 January 2023

Thursday, 19 January 2023

1st Meeting, 2023

Start time: 09:10am

End time: 11:27am

Location: T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room

Published: Thursday, 19 January 2023

Committee Member attendees:

Apologies received from:

Alex Rowley (Member)

Substitute Member attendees:

Jackie Baillie (Substitute Member)

Minutes

1. Monitoring COVID-19 recovery:

The Committee took evidence from—

Álfrún Tryggvadóttir, Lead, Spending Review and Machinery of Government and Indré Bambalaité, Junior Policy Analyst, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Jackie Baillie was invited to declare any relevant interests. She indicated that she had no interests to declare.

2. Scottish Government budget 2023-24:

The Committee took evidence from—

John Swinney MSP, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for COVID Recovery, Simon Mair, Deputy Director Covid Recovery and Public Sector Reform, Christine McLaughlin, Director of Population Health and Jamie MacDougall, Deputy Director for Budget and Public Spending, Scottish Government .

3. Consideration of evidence (In Private):

The Committee considered the evidence heard earlier in the meeting.