Chamber and committees

Thank you—I would appreciate that.

I am conscious that the cabinet secretary has to leave at 10:15, but I will bring in Murdo Fraser, followed by Alex Rowley.

I invite the Deputy First Minister to move the motions.

Motions moved,

That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Coronavirus Act 2020 (Alteration of Expiry Date) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/40) be approved.

That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Directions by Local Authorities) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 [draft] be approved.

That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts (Amendment of Expiry Dates) Regulations 2022 [draft] be approved.—[John Swinney]

The question is, that motions S6M-03075, S6M-03169 and S6M-03349 be agreed to. Are we agreed?

Members: No.

There will be a division.

For

Brown, Siobhian (Ayr) (SNP)
Fairlie, Jim (Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) (SNP)
Mason, John (Glasgow Shettleston) (SNP)
Rowley, Alex (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab)

Against

Fraser, Murdo (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
Whittle, Brian (South Scotland) (Con)

That is helpful, because I have a constituent who is over 70 who has a history of breast cancer.

Yes.

We now move on to the second group of motions. I invite the Deputy First Minister to move motions S6M-03202 and S6M-03354.

Motions moved,

That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/53) be approved.

That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No 5) Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/74) be approved.—[John Swinney]

Motions agreed to.

Item 4 is consideration of SSI 2022/64, on which we took evidence under item 2. Members should refer to paper 4 in our meeting pack, as well as the policy note that accompanies the regulations.

This is a negative instrument and the deadline for lodging a motion to annul is 19 April 2022. As outlined in the policy note, it expires some of the provisions in the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 and the Coronavirus (Scotland) (No 2) Act 2020.

When the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the regulations on 1 March, it had no points to raise, and no motion to annul the regulations has been lodged to date. If no member wishes to make any comments, does the committee agree to make no recommendations on the regulations?

Members indicated agreement.

The committee’s next meeting will be on 24 March, when we will continue to take evidence on the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill.

That concludes the public part of the meeting. We now move into private for consideration of our final item.