Chamber and committees

Cathie Russell wants to come in.

Is the committee content to delegate authority to me to sign off on a letter to the Scottish Government informing it of our decision today?

Members indicated agreement.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 at its meeting on 29 November 2022 and made no recommendations in relation to the instrument. The regulations will amend the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Scotland) Regulations 2004 to add additional forms of vitamins and minerals that can be used in manufacture of processed cereal-based foods and baby foods.

No motion to annul has been lodged. As members have no comments, I propose that the committee make no recommendation in relation to the negative instrument. Do members agree with that proposal?

Members indicated agreement.

At our next meeting, the committee will take evidence on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill from the Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care. That will be our last scrutiny session at stage 1 of the bill. That concludes the public part of our meeting.

Good morning and welcome to the 37th meeting of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee in 2022. The first item on the agenda is to decide whether to take item 5 in private. Do members agree?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you; that is helpful.

We move on to questions on mental health support.

Emma, you have a quick follow-up question on something that Elinor Jayne has just said.

Thank you. That seems like a good note on which to move to our final theme: evaluation, monitoring and sequencing.

We have run out of time. I thank the four witnesses for their time. If there is anything that they want to follow up on, perhaps because there was not an opportunity to discuss it—90 minutes goes past incredibly fast—they can write to us and we will include their responses in our report.

We will stop for 10 minutes before our next panel of witnesses.