Chamber and committees

COVID-19 Recovery Committee

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Meeting Agenda

9th Meeting, 2021

• Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021
• Session: 6
• Location: T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room
• Start time: 09:00am
• Published: Thursday, November 4, 2021 01:52pm

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1 Decision on taking business in private:

The Committee will decide whether to take item 5 and all future consideration of evidence in private.

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2 Ministerial statement on COVID-19; the Coronavirus Acts: Two-Monthly Reports to the Scottish Parliament; COVID Recovery Strategy; and Subordinate legislation:

The Committee will take evidence on the Ministerial statement on COVID-19; the Coronavirus Acts: Ninth Two-Monthly Report to Scottish Parliament and Eighth FOI Report; the COVID Recovery Strategy; and the following instruments—
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Directions by Local Authorities) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/329)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/349) from—

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Witnesses

John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for COVID Recovery, Scottish Government

Professor Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director, Scottish Government

Elizabeth Sadler, Deputy Director, Covid Ready Society, Scottish Government

Graham Fisher, Deputy Director Scottish Government Legal Directorate, Scottish Government

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CVDR/S6/21/9/2(P) (Private Paper)

SPICe Paper posted 01/11/2021 (Ref: CVDR/S6/21/9/3, 1MB, pdf)

Note by the Clerk posted 01/11/2021 (Ref: CVDR/S6/21/9/1, 1MB, pdf)

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3 Subordinate legislation:

John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for COVID Recovery to move—
S6M-01399—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Directions by Local Authorities) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/329) be approved.
S6M-01529—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/349) be approved.

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4 Baseline health protection measures:

The Committee will take evidence from—

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Witnesses

Dr Hywel Davies, Technical Director, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald OBE FREng, Director, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge, University of Cambridge

Professor Catherine Noakes OBE FREng, Professor of Environmental Engineering for Buildings, University of Leeds

Professor Tim Sharpe, Head of Architecture, University of Strathclyde

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SPICe Paper posted 01/11/2021 (Ref: CVDR/S6/21/9/5, 173KB, pdf)

Note by the Clerk posted 01/11/2021 (Ref: CVDR/S6/21/9/4, 106KB, pdf)

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5 Consideration of evidence:

The Committee will consider the evidence heard earlier in the meeting.

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