Chamber and committees

Sandesh Gulhane has a question on that, before we move on.

Sandesh Gulhane has a question.

Thank you for your time today. We have kept you longer than we said we would, but that is because everything that you have said has been so valuable. What has been particularly valuable for me and the clerks is the other groups that you have mentioned that you are aware of, which we can pick up on.

At our next meeting, we will undertake routine scrutiny of NHS boards, and we will continue our formal evidence taking as part of our inquiry into female participation in sport and physical activity. That ends the formal, public part of our meeting.

It speaks to the independence of the commissioner, does it not? In effect, Parliament will be the main judge of how that is going. That is quite fundamental to the whole idea of the patient safety commissioner.

Emma Harper also wants to ask about the remit.

Let us move on to talk about the remit, which we have mentioned a bit already.

Paul Sweeney has a question on this issue.

The second instrument is the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023. The purpose of the instrument is to increase the charges recovered from persons who pay compensation in cases where an injured person receives national health service hospital treatment or ambulance services.?The increase in charges relates to an uplift for hospital and community health services annual inflation.??

No motion to annul has been lodged in relation to this instrument.???If members have no comments, I propose that the committee makes no recommendations in relation to the negative instrument.??Are we all in agreement??

Members indicated agreement.

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We now move on to questions from Evelyn Tweed.

We move on to talk further about role models.