1. Decisions on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private, and whether equivalent items on future agendas should be taken in private.

2. Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill

The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from—

• Eleanor Deeming
  Legal Officer
  Scottish Human Rights Commission
• Dr Murray Earle
  Lecturer in Medical Law, Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law
  University of Edinburgh
• Dr Mary Neal
  Reader in Law
  Strathclyde University
• Lynda Towers
  Public Policy Committee Member
  Law Society of Scotland

and then from -

• Dr Arun Chopra
  Medical Director
  Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
• Professor Colin McKay
  Professor, Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research
  Edinburgh Napier University
• Dr Stephen Potts
  Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry, NHS Lothian
  representing the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland

3. Subordinate legislation

The Committee will consider the following negative instrument—

National Health Service Superannuation and Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2024

4. Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill

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