1. Decision on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take item 6 in private.

2. Subordinate legislation

The Committee will take evidence on the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Immunities and Privileges) (Scotland) Order 2021 [draft] and the European Union and European Atomic Energy Community (Immunities and Privileges) (Scotland) Order 2021 [draft] from—

• Ash Denham
  Minister for Community Safety
  Scottish Government
• Susan Black
  Senior Policy Officer, Civil Law and Legal System Division
  Scottish Government
• Jo-anne Tinto
  Solicitor, Constitutional and Civil Law Division
  Scottish Government Legal Directorate

3. Subordinate legislation

Ash Denham (Minister for Community Safety) to move—

S6M-00926—That the Criminal Justice Committee recommends that the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Immunities and Privileges) (Scotland) Order 2021 [draft] be approved.

S6M-00931—That the Criminal Justice Committee recommends that the European Union and European Atomic Energy Community (Immunities and Privileges) (Scotland) Order 2021 [draft] be approved.

4. Prisons and prison policy

The Committee will take evidence in a round-table discussion from—

• Alan Staff
  Chief Executive
  Apex Scotland
• Bruce Adamson
  Children and Young People’s Commissioner
• Wendy Sinclair-Gieben
  HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland 
  HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland
• Dr Katrina Morrison
  Howard League Scotland Committee Secretary
  Howard League Scotland
• John Watt
  Chair
  Parole Board for Scotland
• Phil Fairlie
  Assistant General Secretary of the POA in Scotland
  Prison Officers Association
• Professor Fergus McNeill
  Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of Glasgow
  Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
• Teresa Medhurst
  Interim Chief Executive
  Scottish Prison Service
• Allister Purdie
  Interim Director of Operations
  Scottish Prison Service

5. Reducing youth offending, offering community justice solutions and alternatives to custody

The Committee will take evidence in a round-table discussion from—

• Fiona Dyer
  Interim Director
  Children’s and Young People’s Centre for Justice
• Gemma Fraser
  Senior Reporting Officer Recovery, Renewal & Transform
  Community Justice Scotland
• Ashley Cameron
  The Promise Scotland Oversight Board member
  The Care Review
• Superintendent Colin Convery
  Partnerships, Prevention and Community Wellbeing
  Police Scotland
• Diane Dobbie
  Justice Standing Committee
  Social Work Scotland
• Professor Lesley McAra
  University of Edinburgh
• Dr Hannah Graham
  Senior Lecturer in Criminology
  University of Stirling
• Niven Rennie
  Director
  Scottish Violence Reduction Unit

6. Evidence Sessions

The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda items 4 and 5.