Chamber and committees

Paul, are you happy for me to move on to your colleagues to ask some supplementary questions on that?

That is interesting. Could you clarify whether the issue legislatively is around power of attorney?

I thank all members of the panel, particularly for the ideas that you have put forward and for flagging up the things that you are doing to try to make a difference. You have given us a lot of food for thought, and I thank you for your time.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered SSI 2022/263 at its meeting on 20 September and agreed to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on reporting ground (j), for failure to comply with the laying requirements in section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010. The committee also reported that it was content with the explanations that the Scottish Government provided for failure to comply with the laying requirements.

The purpose of the instrument is to make amendments to existing transitional provisions contained in subordinate legislation and in retained European Union legislation that relate to various food labelling requirements. The amendments, which apply only in Scotland, extend previous transitional arrangements that were due to expire at the end of September 2022 so that they continue to apply until the end of 2023.

No motion to annul has been lodged in relation to the instrument. As members have no comments, do we agree that the committee does not make any?recommendations in relation to this negative?instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

At our next meeting, we will take evidence on the recently published independent review of racism in Scottish cricket and from representatives of integration joint boards on their experiences to date of health and social care integration in Scotland.

Tess, do you want to ask your question on beds?

A number of members want to come in on that point specifically.

I will bring the discussion back—

Thank you for that clarification, Sandesh. I will suspend the meeting briefly to allow us to change witnesses.

We also need to remember to keep doing some of the things that we got very good at doing over the past couple of years.