Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting Agenda
20th Meeting, 2022
- Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
- Session: 6
- Location: TG.60-CR3 The Fleming Room
- Start time: 09:00am
- Published: Thursday, May 26, 2022 03:05pm
1 Declaration of interests
Tess White MSP will be invited to declare any relevant interests.
2 Decision on taking business in private
The Committee will decide whether to take item 5 in private.
The Committee will decide whether to take the next meeting on 7 June 2022 in private.
3 Health Inequalities
The Committee will take evidence from—
Witnesses
Dr Ima Jackson, Scottish Migrant Ethnic Health Research Strategy (SMEHRS) Group
Ed Pybus, Policy and Parliamentary Officer, Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland
Bill Scott, Chair, Poverty and Inequality Commission
Claire Sweeney, Director of Place and Wellbeing, Public Health Scotland
Gill Bhatti, Employee and Diversity Manager, South Lanarkshire Council
Danny Boyle, BEMIS Scotland Senior Parliamentary and Policy Officer and National Coordinator of the EMNRN, BEMIS and Ethnic Minority National Resilience Network
Emma Fyvie, Senior Manager (Development), Clackmannanshire Council
Dr Gillian Purdon, Head of Nutrition, Science and Policy, Food Standards Scotland
Inquiry on health inequalities - Note by the Clerk 998KB pdf posted 26/05/2022 (Ref: HSCS/S6/22/20/1)
HSCS/S6/22/20/2(P) (Private Paper)
4 Subordinate legislation
The Committee will consider the following negative instruments— Food and Feed Safety (Fukushima Restrictions) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2022
Subordinate legislation - Negative SSIs paper 180KB pdf posted 26/05/2022 (Ref: HSCS/S6/22/20/3)
5 Health Inequalities
The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 3.