Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

1. Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill (in private): The Committee will receive a briefing from Scottish Government officials. 2. Decisions on taking business in private: Not before 9.50am The Committee will decide whether to take item 5 in private and whether to consider, in private at future meetings, evidence heard at those meetings as part of its Stage 1 scrutiny of the Abortion (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill. 3. Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on commissioned research on comparable legislation and its implementation worldwide from— Emily Ottley, Independent Researcher. 4. Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from— Alice Murray; Lily Roberts; Lucy Grieve, Co-Founder, Back Off Scotland; Rachael Clarke, Chief of Staff, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS); Dr Rebecca Mason, Research and Policy Lead, The Young Women’s Movement. 5. Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda items 3 and 4.