Chamber and committees

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 7, no points have been raised on the following documents.

Welcome to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee’s fifth meeting in session 6. Before we move to the first item on the agenda, I remind everyone present to switch their mobile phones to silent.

The first item of business is to decide whether to take an item in private. Is the committee content to take item 8 in private?

Members indicated agreement.

The second item of business is consideration of an instrument laid under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. The committee is considering whether the Scottish Government has applied the appropriate procedure and categorisation to the instrument.

The committee’s consideration relates only to the provision that is made in regulation 3. No issues have been raised with either the procedure that the Scottish Government is using—in this case, the negative procedure—or the instrument’s categorisation as being of low significance.

Under agenda item 5, no points have been raised on the following instruments.

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 6, no points have been raised on the following instruments.

Is the committee content with the documents?

Members indicated agreement.

Of all the Covid SSIs that were laid in the past 18 months, how many SSIs are still live, and how many have been superseded or are no longer used?

Our predecessor committee welcomed the Scottish Government’s work in meeting almost all its historical commitments by the end of the previous parliamentary session. Some of those commitments went back more than one session, as you will be very much aware. What is the Government doing to ensure that it meets its commitments swiftly in this session, and to ensure that that problem does not resurface?