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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 18 February 2025
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Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Pensioner Poverty

Meeting date: 6 February 2025

Roz McCall

I want to follow on from Bob Doris’s earlier points.

There are some elderly people, including in my family, who struggle because of the way the world has moved on and things have moved to digital—for example, my mum is not a big fan of doing anything online and gets confused by jargon. Have we made the process of claiming benefits a little bit harder for elderly people?

Is there an argument that we need to look not only at the benefits that are in place and how they stack up but at how we are going about the process? Are we putting in enough support at the right stages to allow people to apply for what they should be applying for? Only 65 per cent of eligible households are receiving pension credit. To me, that is just wrong. Have we got the process right?

Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Pensioner Poverty

Meeting date: 6 February 2025

Roz McCall

That was very helpful, Debbie. Thank you.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry: Post-Inquiry Scrutiny

Meeting date: 5 February 2025

Roz McCall

That is very interesting.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry: Post-Inquiry Scrutiny

Meeting date: 5 February 2025

Roz McCall

That is interesting.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry: Post-Inquiry Scrutiny

Meeting date: 5 February 2025

Roz McCall

Hello, everyone. Thank you for being here.

Colleges have some great links with schools and some fantastic links with small and medium-sized enterprises. I know that there are challenges and positives when it comes to establishing links, but I am interested in how that is going. When I was at Fife College recently, I heard that it could not obtain a single placement for its social care course for a whole year—it simply could not offer that side of the course.

Given that you are building links with SMEs, what has the process been like since the flexible workforce development fund came to an end? Can you give us an idea of how that is going?

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry: Post-Inquiry Scrutiny

Meeting date: 5 February 2025

Roz McCall

Thank you very much indeed.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Interests

Meeting date: 5 February 2025

Roz McCall

Thank you. I have no relevant interests to declare.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry: Post-Inquiry Scrutiny

Meeting date: 5 February 2025

Roz McCall

That was very interesting—thank you.

Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee [Draft]

Framework Legislation and Henry VIII Powers

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Roz McCall

That is helpful. Thank you.

Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee [Draft]

Framework Legislation and Henry VIII Powers

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Roz McCall

I go back to the wonderful comments that I made earlier on guidance. Would guidance be helpful?