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Chamber and committees

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee


Meeting Agenda

21st Meeting, 2025

  • Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025
  • Session: 6
  • Location: TG.60-CR3 The Fleming Room
  • Start time: 08:45am
  • Published: Thursday, August 28, 2025 04:50pm

1 Decisions on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private.


2 Employment Rights Bill (UK Parliament legislation)

The Committee will take evidence on supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum LCM-S6-53b from—


Witnesses

Tom Arthur, Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing, Scottish Government

Anne Cairns, Solicitor, Scottish Government

Danny Duffy, Fair Work, Social Care, Scottish Government

David Holmes, Fair Work, Economy, Scottish Government

Rachael Thomas, Fair Work, Social Care, Scottish Government



3 Good Food Nation

The Committee will take evidence from—


Witnesses

Mhairi Brown, Head of Food Futures, Food, Farming and Countryside Commission Scotland

Anna Chworow, Deputy Director, Nourish Scotland

Claire Hislop, Organisational Lead for Food and Physical Activity, Public Health Scotland

Professor Lindsay Jaacks, Deputy Director and Personal Chair of Global Health and Nutrition, University of Edinburgh


Mairi Gougeon, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, Scottish Government

James Hamilton, Lawyer, Scottish Government

Tracy McCollin, Head of Good Food Nation Team, Scottish Government

Jo Mitchell, Procurement Policy Manager, Scottish Government

James Wilson, Population Health Strategy and Improvement, Scottish Government



4 Employment Rights Bill (UK Parliament legislation)

The Committee will consider a draft report on supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum LCM-S6-53b.



5 Good Food Nation

The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 3.


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