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Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Joe FitzPatrick
That is great.
It is languages week and my colleague Pam Gosal wants to probe a little further into that area.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Joe FitzPatrick
Our next item of business is consideration of an affirmative instrument. I welcome Elena Whitham, the Minister for Community Safety, and her Scottish Government officials: Lisa Davidson, civil justice senior policy officer, and Martin Brown, solicitor in the legal directorate.
I refer members to paper 1 and invite the minister to speak to the draft instrument.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Joe FitzPatrick
No other member has indicated that they wish to ask a question, so that brings us to the end of the session. I thank the minister and her officials for attending.
11:29 Meeting continued in private until 11:54.Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Joe FitzPatrick
As there are no further questions or comments, we will move to item 3, which is the formal business relating to the regulations.
I invite the minister to move motion S6M-07224.
Motion moved,
That the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee recommends that the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Council Tax Reduction Review Panel) Regulations 2023 [draft] be approved.—[Elena Whitham]
Motion agreed to.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Joe FitzPatrick
Under item 4, we will consider two negative SSIs. I refer members to paper 2.
As no members have any comments on the instruments, there will be no reporting on them.
I will suspend the meeting briefly to allow the Minister for Equalities and Older People and her officials to take their places at the table for item 5.
10:13 Meeting suspended.10:15 On resuming—
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Joe FitzPatrick
Maggie Chapman has some questions.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Joe FitzPatrick
Thank you very much. It is always good to see the DPLR Committee doing its work so diligently. These are often very technical matters and it is good that the process works.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Joe FitzPatrick
That is brilliant. Rob Priestley, do you want to add anything about the wider work that is going on?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
Meeting date: 24 January 2023
Joe FitzPatrick
Lots of folk want to come in. We have to move on.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
Meeting date: 24 January 2023
Joe FitzPatrick
That is great.
We will move to questions. During our pre-budget scrutiny sessions, a number of witnesses said that some of the documentation is not accessible to everyone. Do the documents that were published this year meet the aspiration that documentation will be accessible? Were there areas in which accessibility was not as good as it could be? Do you have suggestions for improvement?
I think that most of the witnesses will want to answer those questions; we will kick off with Clare Gallagher.
