Meeting Minutes
2nd Meeting, 2021
Date: Thursday, September 2, 2021
Session: 6
Location: T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room
Meeting opened at: 09:30am
Meeting closed at: 11:03am
Committee Members Attendees
Siobhian Brown (Convener)
Jim Fairlie
Murdo Fraser (Deputy Convener)
John Mason
Alex Rowley
Brian Whittle
1 Scotland’s Strategic Framework:
The Committee took evidence from—
John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for COVID Recovery, Professor Jason Leitch,National Clinical Director and Dominic Munro,Director for COVID-19: Exit Strategy, Scottish Government.
2 Ministerial statement on COVID-19; the Coronavirus Acts: Two-Monthly Reports to the Scottish Parliament; and Subordinate legislation:
The Committee took evidence on the Ministerial statement on COVID-19; the Coronavirus Acts: Eighth Two-Monthly Report to Scottish Parliament and Seventh FOI Report; and the following instruments—
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 27) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/238)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 28) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/242)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 29) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/252)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 30) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/255)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 31) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/262)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 32) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/263)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/277)
The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 (Early Expiry of Provisions) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/214)
The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 (Early Expiry of Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/236)
The Coronavirus (Extension and Expiry) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Evidence) (Saving Provision) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/280)
The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Suspension: Disposal of Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/250) (laid only) from—
John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for COVID Recovery, Professor Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director and Elizabeth Blair, Team leader, Covid Co-ordination Governance and Decision Making, Scottish Government.
3 Subordinate legislation:
John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for COVID Recovery moved—
S6M-00695—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 27) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/238) be approved;
S6M-00694—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 28) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/242) be approved;
S6M-00693—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 29) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/252) be approved;
S6M-00692—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 30) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/255) be approved;
S6M-00702—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 31) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/262) be approved;
S6M-00701—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 32) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/263) be approved;
S6M-00901—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/277) be approved.
The motions were agreed to.
4 Subordinate legislation:
The Committee considered the following negative instruments—
The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 (Early Expiry of Provisions) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/214)
The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 (Early Expiry of Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/236)
The Coronavirus (Extension and Expiry) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Evidence) (Saving Provision) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/280)
The Committee agreed to make no recommendations in relation to the instruments.