Finance Committee,

Meeting date: Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Official Report 181KB pdf

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Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum

Agenda item 3 is to decide what level of scrutiny to apply to the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill. As committee members can see from the approach paper by the clerk, it is proposed that we adopt level 3 scrutiny, which is to take written and oral evidence from those bodies on which costs fall and oral evidence from Executive officials. In this case, it is proposed that we take oral evidence from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities as well as from the Executive.

I should mention that the Scottish NHS Confederation, which is mentioned in the paper, was disbanded at the end of March, so I suggest that we might need to contact individual health boards. Perhaps it might also be worth trying to get written evidence on the bill from Enable and the Scottish Association for Mental Health.

Do members agree with those suggestions?

Members indicated agreement.