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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 13 September 2025
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Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2026-27

Meeting date: 9 September 2025

Karen Adam

We will move to questions from Tess White.

Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2026-27

Meeting date: 9 September 2025

Karen Adam

Sara Cowan would like to come in.

Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2026-27

Meeting date: 9 September 2025

Karen Adam

We move to questions from Marie McNair, please.

Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2026-27

Meeting date: 9 September 2025

Karen Adam

Thank you very much. That brings our evidence taking from our first panel to a conclusion, and I thank everybody for their participation this morning.

We will suspend briefly for a changeover of witnesses.

10:32 Meeting suspended.  

10:37 On resuming—  

Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2026-27

Meeting date: 9 September 2025

Karen Adam

I welcome our second panel of witnesses, who are Shona Robison, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, and Kaukab Stewart, the Minister for Equalities, along with Scottish Government officials Rob Priestley, who is head of the mainstreaming unit, and Alasdair Black, who is deputy director for budget and fiscal co-ordination.

I invite the minister and the cabinet secretary to make short opening statements.

Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2026-27

Meeting date: 9 September 2025

Karen Adam

Our second agenda item is pre-budget scrutiny. This is the third and final year of the committee’s agreed focus on human rights budgeting and the final budget for session 6. Accordingly, the focus will be on accountability and on consolidating the committee’s scrutiny throughout the session. That follows on from the committee exploring participation in 2023, as part of our scrutiny of the budget for 2024-25, and transparency in 2024, as part of our pre-budget scrutiny for 2025-26.

Although this is our first public pre-budget scrutiny session this year, the committee has held informal sessions. Last week, we heard from the Commission Advocating Rights for Minorities and the committee will today draw heavily on what we heard last week from the commission.

Today, we will hear from key stakeholders the committee has worked with throughout the session, before hearing from the Minister for Equalities and from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government.

The first part of the meeting will follow a round-table format. I welcome Professor Angela O’Hagan, chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission; Emma Congreve, interim chair of the equality and human rights budget advisory group and deputy director and principal knowledge exchange fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute; Sara Cowan, director of the Scottish Women’s Budget Group; and Allan Faulds, senior policy officer at the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland. I thank them all for coming today.

I will begin our conversation by inviting everyone to briefly introduce themselves. I will begin. I am the member for Banffshire and Buchan Coast and the convener of the committee. We will go anticlockwise round the table.

Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2026-27

Meeting date: 9 September 2025

Karen Adam

Thank you, that was very helpful.

Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2026-27

Meeting date: 9 September 2025

Karen Adam

I remind witnesses and members that we are running a bit over time. We still have a question from Pam Gosal, and Tess White has indicated that she wants to ask a question. If any other members wish to ask any more questions, they should indicate that to me. I ask everyone to make it as a succinct as possible so that we do not go too far over time. I would appreciate that.

Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee [Draft]

Post-legislative Scrutiny

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Karen Adam

As no other members wish to come in, that concludes the first part of this morning’s evidence session. We will suspend briefly for a changeover of Government officials.

10:21 Meeting suspended.  

10:22 On resuming—  

Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee [Draft]

Post-legislative Scrutiny

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Karen Adam

Thank you for updating us on when we can expect the sets of regulations. On when the two sets of regulations will take effect, are the lead-in times that were stated in the March letter—12 months and 18 months respectively—still correct?