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- Scottish Parliament Health Committee Tuesday 20 December 2005
- Subordinate Legislation
- Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
- Health Bill: Legislative Consent Memorandum
Health Bill: Legislative Consent Memorandum
We will move into private session after this brief item. The legislative consent memorandum on the Health Bill was lodged on 8 December, and it has now been referred to this committee for consideration. A copy has been circulated. The committee is required to report to the Parliament before the deadline for consideration. Subject to the committee's agreement, I propose that we take evidence from the Minister for Health and Community Care at our meeting of Tuesday 10 January. That date was originally indicated as a day when we would not meet, but we are now required to do so. The committee will also have an opportunity to consider a report from the Subordinate Legislation Committee. I propose that the committee then moves into private session to agree the content of the report that we are required to produce, and to agree our recommendation to Parliament. Those arrangements will allow the committee's report to be published by the appropriate deadline, ahead of the Parliament's consideration of the Executive's legislative consent motion.
It is my intention to write to the Executive to express our concern about the process. This is the first use of the new procedure for UK legislation, and it seems that we are already running into timescale difficulties. I want to flag up my concern early in the new process.
Is the committee content that, at our meeting on 10 January 2006, we proceed on the basis that I have outlined?
Members indicated agreement.
Meeting suspended until 15:35 and thereafter continued in private until 15:49.