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Chamber and committees

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee


Agenda: 02 February 2022

Wednesday, 02 February 2022

Start time: 10:00am
Location: This is a virtual meeting
Agenda items:

  1. Joint meeting with Criminal Justice Committee and Social Justice and Social Security Committee on reducing drug deaths in Scotland and tackling problem drug use

Full agenda and available meeting papers


6th Meeting, 2022

Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee and Social Justice and Social Security Committee Joint Meeting

Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Session: 6
Location: www.scottishparliament.tv
Start time:10:00am


1 Decision on taking business in private:

The Committees will decide whether to take item 3 in private.


2 Reducing drug deaths in Scotland and tackling problem drug use:

The Committees will take evidence from—


Witnesses

David Strang, Chair, Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce


Angela Constance, Minister for Drugs Policy, Scottish Government

Morris Fraser, Head of Delivery and Support Unit, Drugs Policy Division, Scottish Government

Henry Acres, Scottish Drugs Death Taskforce Support Team Leader, Scottish Government


Note by the Clerk and Written Submissions (2MB, pdf) posted 27 January 2022

Submission from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (449KB, pdf) posted 31 January 2022

HSCS/S6/22/6/2(P) (Private Paper)


3 Review of evidence:

The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 2.


HSCS/S6/22/6/3(P) (Private Paper)