Chamber and committees

COVID-19 Recovery Committee

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Meeting Agenda

6th Meeting, 2022

• Date: Thursday, February 24, 2022
• Session: 6
• Location: T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room
• Start time: 09:00am
• Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 04:26pm

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1 Excess deaths in Scotland since the start of the pandemic:

The Committee will take evidence from—

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Witnesses

Professor Andrew Elder, President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Dr John Thomson, Vice President (Scotland), Royal College of Emergency Medicine

Dr David Shackles, Joint Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland

Dr Barbara Miles, President, Scottish Intensive Care Society

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Note by the Clerk posted 21/02/2022 (Ref: CVDR/S6/22/6/1, 641KB, pdf)

CVDR/S6/22/6/2(P) (Private Paper)

CVDR/S6/22/6/3(P) (Private Paper)

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

The Committee will take evidence on the Ministerial statement on COVID-19; the Coronavirus Acts: Eleventh Two-Monthly Report to Scottish Parliament and Tenth FOI Report; and the following instruments—
The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Alteration of Expiry Date) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/40)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 2022 [Draft]
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Directions by Local Authorities) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 [Draft] 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

Dominic Munro, Director for COVID-19: Exit Strategy, Scottish Government

Elizabeth Blair, Unit Head, Covid Co-ordination, Scottish Government

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Note by the Clerk posted 21/02/2022 (Ref: CVDR/S6/22/6/4, 392KB, pdf)

SPICe Issues Paper posted 23/02/2022 (Ref: CVDR/S6/22/6/5, 207KB, pdf)

SPICe Issues Paper posted 23/02/2022 (Ref: CVDR/S6/22/6/6, 2MB, pdf)

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3 Subordinate legislation:

John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for COVID Recovery to move—
S6M-03168—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 2022 [draft] be approved.

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4 Consideration of evidence: (Private)

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

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