Public Petitions Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015

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Continued Petition

Confidentiality Clauses (NHS Scotland) (PE1495)

Agenda item 3, which is our final item of business, is consideration of one continued petition. PE1495, by Rab Wilson, is on the use of gagging clauses in agreements with national health service staff in Scotland. Members have paperwork from the clerks and the submissions.

Does someone want to kick off the discussion? The Public Audit Committee is looking at the matter. Will we just wait and give it time to discuss it?

Members indicated agreement.

Okay. I do not think that there is much more that we can do while another committee is addressing the problem. We will leave it at that. Obviously, the petition can come back to us once the Public Audit Committee has had its chance to deliberate.

That means that we can formally close the meeting.