Skip to main content

Language: English / Gàidhlig

Loading…

Chamber and committees

Official Report: search what was said in Parliament

The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

Filter your results Hide all filters

Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 2 November 2024
Select which types of business to include


Select level of detail in results

Displaying 1091 contributions

|

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers

Meeting date: 30 March 2023

Clare Adamson

We wish you all the best for that conference and, indeed, for the peace conference later in the year. We will watch with interest. I hope that this is not the last time that you will be able to come and update the committee on your work. Thank you very much for your attendance this morning.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers

Meeting date: 30 March 2023

Clare Adamson

Thank you very much. Our Scottish Government is prioritising improving links with the Nordic region and recently opened its Nordic office in Copenhagen. The Scottish Parliament has also engaged with the Nordic Council recently; indeed, the Presiding Officer, one of my fellow committee conveners and I attended the Nordic Council in Helsinki. I found it very informative and interesting. I particularly liked the session with the ministers from the countries that were represented there. The interaction between the delegates and ministers was amazing.

My colleagues will ask a little bit about the situation with Ukraine. I will ask a question about cultural co-operation. The council has an awards ceremony that recognises, for example, literature, music and film. How do you see the cultural links between Scotland and the Nordic region improving? We have been trying to support as much as we can the Ukrainian Institute London to support the culture of Ukraine. We have 26,000 refugees here. What is the Nordic Council of Ministers doing to support the cultural protection of Ukraine at this time, when its language, artefacts, museums and cultural centres are being destroyed in the war?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Devolution Post-EU

Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Clare Adamson

I will be attending an interparliamentary forum tomorrow in Westminster.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Clare Adamson

Good morning, and a very warm welcome to the 10th meeting in 2023 of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee. Our first agenda item is to decide whether to take item 3 in private. Do we agree to take item 3 in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Devolution Post-EU

Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Clare Adamson

Under our second agenda item, we will continue to take evidence as part of our inquiry into how devolution is changing post-European Union and how it should evolve to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the new constitutional landscape.

We are joined by Professor Aileen McHarg, professor of public law and human rights at Durham University. Welcome to the committee. Thank you very much for providing written evidence to the committee. You have highlighted a number of ways in which the legal and constitutional framework for devolution could be strengthened. Are there any priority areas among the suggestions that you have made? What are the biggest challenges?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Devolution Post-EU

Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Clare Adamson

Dr Allan has a supplementary question.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Devolution Post-EU

Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Clare Adamson

I am referring to both the Scottish Government and the UK Government. You talked about the nature of some of the decisions that were taken at Government level. Does the Parliament have a role to play in protecting the devolution settlement? Does it have a voice or a mechanism for influencing what happens if changes are proceeded with? Do the Governments have to lead on this, or is there any other way that we could do it?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Devolution Post-EU

Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Clare Adamson

Okay—you go first.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Devolution Post-EU

Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Clare Adamson

Okay. We have exhausted the committee’s questions. Thank you very much, Professor McHarg, for your written submission and your attendance at committee today. We will now move into private session.

10:47 Meeting continued in private until 11:00.  

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Devolution Post-EU

Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Clare Adamson

I have a final question. Sarah Boyack mentioned the visit that we had from the Saxon State Parliament constitution committee earlier this week. Are there models or examples out there—albeit most countries have written constitutions, which we do not have—from which we could take best practice in dispute resolution? Could we look at some of the committees that have been set up elsewhere and the mechanisms that are available elsewhere to help us?