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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 23 July 2025
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Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Draft Annual Report)

Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Clare Adamson

Cabinet secretary, I wonder—

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Draft Annual Report)

Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Clare Adamson

Welcome back to the committee meeting. We will try to resume questions to the cabinet secretary. Cabinet secretary, if you could repeat the final few minutes of your opening statement, that would be very welcome, as we were not able to hear it.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Draft Annual Report)

Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Clare Adamson

Thank you, cabinet secretary. We begin taking evidence on the retained EU law bill next week so, as a committee, we will be returning to that.

We move to questions from members on the annual report, starting with Donald Cameron.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Draft Annual Report)

Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Clare Adamson

Thank you very much, cabinet secretary. I confirm that we can hear you, and I hope that that will continue for the rest of the session and that there will be no more disruption.

I want to reflect, first of all, on the comments in your opening remarks about the research that our committee commissioned to inform the wider public and the Parliament about some of the decisions that have been made and some of the legislation that has been passed in the EU. We have also heard evidence that the Westminster dashboard does not seem to cover devolved areas. Do you agree that there needs to be more information? You say that the report is just part of the picture, but how can stakeholders, civic Scotland and so on examine the decision making that is taking place at the moment? Moreover, do you agree that it is almost as important to know what is not being taken forward by the Government as it is to know what is being taken forward?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Draft Annual Report)

Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Clare Adamson

I have two members who want to come in as well as a possible supplementary question, so if everyone could be as succinct as possible, that would be helpful.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Draft Annual Report)

Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Clare Adamson

That is helpful. In that case, I will take a very quick question from Jenni Minto.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Draft Annual Report)

Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Clare Adamson

Thank you, cabinet secretary. I am very conscious of your time, so I will just thank you and your officials for attending. The committee might have a couple of follow-up questions that we were unable to get to today, but we will decide on that in private session, which we will now move into.

09:45 Meeting continued in private until 09:59.  

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Draft Annual Report)

Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Clare Adamson

Cabinet secretary, I am conscious of the time. Do you have any flexibility with regard to the time that you have available to stay with the committee?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Draft Annual Report)

Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Clare Adamson

The second item on our agenda is evidence on the draft annual report laid by Scottish ministers on the exercise of the power in the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021. We are joined remotely this morning by Angus Robertson, Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture, and by George Macpherson, head of EU policy and alignment, Rosemary Greenhill, drinking water quality regulatory team leader, and Lorraine Walkinshaw, lawyer, from the Scottish Government.

I offer you all a warm welcome and I invite the cabinet secretary to make a brief statement.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 (Draft Annual Report)

Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Clare Adamson

Cabinet secretary? I do not think that he can hear me.

08:50 Meeting suspended.  

08:53 On resuming—