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The committee will meet at 8:45am at T4.40-CR2 The Fairfax Somerville Room and will be broadcast on www.scottishparliament.tv.

1. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (Scottish Carbon Budgets) Amendment Regulations 2025 from—

• Professor Gabi Hegerl, Professor of Climate System Science, University of Edinburgh
• Professor Fabrice Renaud, Professor of Environmental Risk & Community Resilience and Director of the National Centre for Resilience, University of Glasgow
• Dr Andrew Russell, Director, Environmental Change and Communities Research Centre
• Dr Ellie Murtagh, Post Doctoral researcher, Maynooth University

and then from—

• Gillian Martin, Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, Scottish Government
• Philip Raines, Deputy Director, Domestic Climate Change, Scottish Government
• Julia Burgham Pearson, Lawyer, Scottish Government

2. Subordinate legislation: Gillian Martin (Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy) to move—S6M-18060—That the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee recommends that the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (Scottish Carbon Budgets) Amendment Regulations 2025 be approved.

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Peter McGrath on 85232 or at [email protected]

The committee will meet at 9:00am at T1.60-CR4 The Clerk Maxwell Room and will be broadcast on www.scottishparliament.tv.

1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 5 and 6 in private.

2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny: The Committee will take evidence from—

• Professor Angela O'Hagan, Chair, Scottish Human Rights Commission
• Emma Congreve, Equality and Human Rights Budget Advisory Group and Deputy Director and Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Fraser of Allander Institute
• Sara Cowan, Director, Scottish Women's Budget Group
• Allan Faulds, Senior Policy Officer, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)

and then from—

• Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, Scottish Government
• Kaukab Stewart, Minister for Equalities, Scottish Government
• Rob Priestley, Head of Mainstreaming Unit, Scottish Government
• Alasdair Black, Deputy Director, Budget and Fiscal Coordination, Scottish Government

3. Civil Legal Aid Inquiry (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report.

4. British Sign Language Inquiry (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report.

5. Work programme: The Committee will consider its work programme.

6. Pre-Budget Scrutiny: The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 2.

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Euan Donald on 85204 or at [email protected]

The committee will meet at 9:00am at TG.40-CR1 The Burns Room and will be broadcast on www.scottishparliament.tv.

1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private.

2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2026-27: Responding to long-term fiscal pressures: The Committee will take evidence from—

• Richard Robinson, Senior Manager, Audit Scotland
• João Sousa, Deputy Director and Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Fraser of Allander Institute

and then from—

• Michael Kellet, Director of Strategy, Governance and Performance, Public Health Scotland
• David Livey, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
• Dave Moxham, Deputy General Secretary, Scottish Trades Union Congress
• Mike Brown, Treasurer, Social Work Scotland
• Ian McCall, Policy and Campaigns Officer, Walking Scotland

3. Appointments to the Scottish Fiscal Commission: The Committee will take evidence from the following nominees—

• Dr Eleanor Ryan
• Justine Riccomini

4. Appointments to the Scottish Fiscal Commission: The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 3.

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Joanne McNaughton, at [email protected].

The committee will meet at 9:00am at TG.60-CR3 The Fleming Room and will be broadcast on www.scottishparliament.tv.

1. Decisions on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 3, 4 and 5 in private.

2. Pre-budget scrutiny 2026-2027: The Committee will take evidence from—

• Professor Neil Craig, Professor of Public Health Economics, Glasgow Caledonian University
• Dr Danny Ruta, Consultant in Public Health, NHS Grampian

3. Pre-budget scrutiny 2026-2027: The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 2.

4. Work programme: The Committee will consider its work programme.

5. Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider a draft Stage 1 report.

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Alex Bruce on 85229 or at [email protected]

The committee will meet at 9:30am at T1.40-CR5 The Smith Room and will be broadcast on www.scottishparliament.tv.

1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 5, 6 and 7 in private.

2. Instruments subject to affirmative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Winter Heating Assistance (Pension Age) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/Draft)Social Security (Residence and Presence Requirements) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/Draft)

3. Instruments subject to negative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/239)Offshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing Methods) (Scotland) Order 2025 (SSI 2025/240)

4. Instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Animal Products (Control of Personal Importation) (Scotland) Order 2025 (SSI 2025/230)

5. Ecocide (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the delegated powers provisions in this Bill at Stage 1.

6. Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the delegated powers provisions in this Bill at Stage 1.

7. Planning and Infrastructure Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will consider the supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum and powers to make subordinate legislation within devolved competence in the Bill.

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Greg Black on 86266 or at [email protected]

The committee will meet at 9:30am at T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room and will be broadcast on www.scottishparliament.tv.

1. Decisions on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 5, 6 and 7 in private.

2. Proposed National Good Food Nation Plan: The Committee will take evidence from—

• Mairi Gougeon, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, Scottish Government
• James Hamilton, Solicitor, Scottish Government
• Emma Henderson, Organics and Community Food Growing Policy Officer, Scottish Government
• Laura Hunter, Procurement Policy, Scottish Government
• Tracy McCollin, Head of Good Food Nation Team, Scottish Government

3. Pre-Budget Scrutiny: The Committee will take evidence as part of its Pre-Budget Scrutiny from—

• Nikki Bridle, Chief Executive, Clackmannanshire Council
• Malcolm Burr, Chief Executive, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
• Thomas Glen, Chief Executive, Perth & Kinross Council
• Ken Gourlay, Chief Executive, Fife Council
• Dr Dawn Roberts, Chief Executive, Dumfries and Galloway Council

4. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instrument—Council Tax Reduction (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) (No. 4) Regulations 2025

5. Proposed National Good Food Nation Plan: The Committee will consider the evidence heard earlier in the meeting.

6. Pre-Budget Scrutiny: The Committee will consider the evidence heard earlier in the meeting.

7. Reform of Energy Performance Certificates: The Committee will consider its approach to scrutiny of reform of Energy Performance Certificates.

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Jenny Mouncer at [email protected]