COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Meeting Minutes
6th Meeting, 2022
- Date: Thursday, February 24, 2022
- Session: 6
- Location: T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room
- Meeting opened at: 09:00
- Meeting closed at: 11:37
- Published: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 02:41pm
Committee Members Attendees
- Siobhian Brown (Convener)
- Murdo Fraser (Deputy Convener)
- Jim Fairlie (Member)
- John Mason (Member)
- Alex Rowley (Member)
- Brian Whittle (Member)
1 Excess deaths in Scotland since the start of the pandemic:
The Committee took evidence from—
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.
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: 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—
John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for COVID Recovery, Professor Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director, Dominic Munro, Director for COVID-19: Exit Strategy and Elizabeth Blair, Unit Head, Covid Co-ordination, Scottish Government .
3 Subordinate legislation:
John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for COVID Recovery moved—
S6M-03168—That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 2022 [draft] be approved.
After debate, the motion was agreed to (by division: For 4 (Siobhian Brown MSP, Jim Fairlie MSP, John Mason MSP, Alex Rowley MSP), Against 2 (Murdo Fraser MSP, Brian Whittle MSP), Abstentions 0).
4 Consideration of evidence (In Private):
The Committee considered the evidence heard earlier in the meeting.