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19 March 2026
Coming Home Action Plan
I am copying this letter to the Presiding Officer, the Convener of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee and COSLA’s Health and Social Care Spokesperson, Councillor Kelly. Yours sincerely, TOM ARTHUR MSP Cc Alison Johnstone MSP, Presiding Officer: [email protected] Karen Adam MSP, Convener, Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee: [email protected] Councillor Paul Kelly, COSLA: [email protected] Scottish Ministers, special advisers and the Permanent Secretary are covered by the terms of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016.
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2 April 2024
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Tackling drug misuse in Scotland is an issue on which we are keen to see progress made and we hope, therefore, that the Parliamentary Bureau and the Conveners’ Group will give their approval. Yours sincerely, Audrey Nicoll MSP Gillian Martin MSP Neil Gray MSP
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8 March 2024
Minutes of the Meeting held on 27 September 2023
Cross-Party Group on Medical Cannabis AGM Date and Time rd 23 September 2023 @6pm Minute Present MSPs • Tess White MSP • Oliver Mundell MSP (online) Invited guests • Professor David Nutt • Kyle Esplin • Will Ewart • Kirsty Morrison (Cancard) Non-MSP Group Members In person • Linda Hendry • Andrew Lundy (patient subgroup) • Claire Bwelec (patient subgroup) • Anna Ross (University of Edinburgh - secretary) • James Smith (Cannabis Industry Council) • Karen Gray (parent) • Jan Alexander (industry) Online • Carol Dew (patient subgroup) • Marc Landers (patient subgroup_ • David Johnstone (patient subgroup) • Hamish Clegg (Industry) 1 Apologies Pauline McNeil MSP Agenda Item 1 Update on children with epilepsy • Following Lisa and Cole story – Cole has been taken off Phenytoin • Karen and Murray – taken case to ombudsman – reduction is seizures but facing supply issues of medicinal cannabis Agenda item 2 Policing • Spoken to young man who has been strip searched twice while in possession of prescribed medicinal cannabis – had blood taken and spent a night in the cells • Another 71-year-old man – had his car stolen and the men who took it drove it into his property – when the police came, they discovered the man’s cannabis supply growing in his garden and arrested and held him in a cell – they even took his trousers as they claimed he was a suicide risk – shows police are aware they are inflicting trauma • Over half of minor offences are cannabis related • Lord Advocate starting to acknowledge nuances in the law Agenda item 3 Presentations Professor David Nutt • Establishing state of play – medicinal cannabis in the UK • Disappointing that prescription is not yet available on the Scottish NHS • Worked with patients with chronic pain, anxiety/trauma related pain, sleep disorders • In one cohort, nearly half of patients have been able to stop talking opioids • PTSD and depression also being studied • Published a paper in leading pharmaceutical journal – used Roland’s annual lecture to the Royal College of Physicians which argued for new ways of evaluating evidence as basis – utilised cannabis with a sample of children with epilepsy - found 96 percent chance of responding • Provides real world evidence, which is often claimed to be lacking • In process of setting up a legal challenge 2 • NICE guidelines are backwards • Possibility to isolate out Scottish figures to prove case?
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13 December 2023
Minutes of the meeting held on 9 November 2022
Minutes of the Cross-Party Group Aviation Group AGM and November meeting 9th November 2022 18:30 – 19:30 Committee Room 9 MSPs attendees: Paul McLellan MSP Graham Simpson MSP Sharon Dowey MSP Non-MSPs attendees: Peter Carroll – Glasgow Airport Roddie MacPhee – ABTA Scotland Janice Hogarth – SPAA Greg Maxwell – Edinburgh Airport Ali Gayward – Easyjet Thom Rawlinson - Easyjet Donna McHugh - Loganair Charandeep Singh – Scottish Chamber of Commerce Mike Tibbert - SPAA Ian Clarke - NATS Lauren Broughton – UK Inbound (via Teams) Karen Musgrave – Barrhead Travel (via Teams) Steve Kay – Airlines UK (via Teams) Alan Campbell - IAG/ British Airways (via Teams) Josh Hill – Parliamentary adviser Apologies Ross Southgate – BALPA Tracy Docherty – If Only Luke Petherbridge – ABTA Rupinder Pamme – AOA Welcome and Apologies The meeting was opened by Graham Simpson who as Co-chair would be chairing this meeting and alternating with Paul McLellan who would chair the next meeting.
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12 June 2023
Minutes of the meeting held on 23 March 2023
MSPs present (Jackie Baillie, Miles Briggs, Siobhian Brown and Bob Doris) introduced themselves.
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11 November 2022
SPCB 2022 Paper 68
Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone MSP; Convener of the Education Committee, Susan Webber MSP; and Convener of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee, Clare Adamson MSP will undertake an outward visit to Helsinki, Finland from 31 October to 3 November...
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30 June 2022
SPCB 2022 Paper 39
In addition to the climate emergency workshop, both Members (Claire Baker MSP and Stuart McMillan MSP) will participate in several of these workshops as well as wider conference discussions such as the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) and Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities networks and the CPA Executive Committee (ExCo - of which Stuart McMillan MSP is a member).
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29 September 2025
Convener Group Meeting Papers 25 Jan 2023
Net zero scrutiny: update on strategic priority CG/S6/23/1/4 Committee debates this Parliamentary year Standards, Procedures & Public Debate its report on future procedures and 1 22/09/2022 Appointments Committee practices Social Justice and Social Robbing Peter to pay Paul: Low income and the 2 01/11/2022 Security Committee debt trap Health, Social Care & Sport 3 10/11/2022 Committee Inquiry into alternative pathways to primary care Constitution, Europe, External 4 17/11/2022 Affairs & Culture Committee The impact of Brexit on devolution Health, Social Care & Sport 5 14/12/2022 Committee Debate on its health inequalities inquiry Citizen Participation & Public petition PE:1865 Suspend all surgical mesh and 6 17/01/2022 Petitions Committee fixation devices Economy & Fair Work Debate on its inquiry report on Retail and Town 7 28/02/2023 Committee Centres in Scotland The role of local government and its cross-sectoral Net Zero, Energy & Transport partners in financing and delivering a net-zero 8 14/03/2023 Committee Scotland 9 10 11 12 Contact details for the clerk Irene Fleming Clerk to the Conveners Group Room T3.40 The Scottish Parliament Tel: 0131 348 5256 Email: [email protected] CG/S6/22/9/M Conveners group Minutes 9th Meeting, 2022 (Session 6) Wednesday 30 November 2022 Present: Liam McArthur MSP...
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24 March 2026
Publication of the One Year Review of Physical Intervention in Schools Guidance
The review’s findings will inform the Scottish Government’s future work with partners this area and will be relevant to the implementation of Daniel Johnson MSP’s Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill, should Parliament pass his Bill this afternoon.
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18 March 2026
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Minister for Business and Employment Richard Lochhead MSP T: 0300 244 4000 E: [email protected] Kenneth Gibson MSP Convener Finance and Public Administration Committee Scottish Parliament Holyrood Edinburgh EH99 1SP ___ WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 16 March 2026 Dear Convener I write to you regarding a m...
