Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

1. Decisions on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 7, 8, 9 and 11 in private. 2. Healthcare in remote and rural areas: The Committee will take evidence from— Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, and Stephen Lea-Ross, Deputy Director of Health Workforce Planning and Development, Scottish Government; Paula Speirs, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland. 3. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (Independent Health Care) Modification Order 2024 [draft] and the Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Inspections) Amendment Regulations 2024 [draft] from— Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Lorraine Alcock, Team Lead, Safety, Openness and Learning, Kirndeep Kaur, Solicitor, Scottish Government Legal Directorate, and Robert Law, Senior Policy Manager, Safety, Openness and Learning, Scottish Government. 4. Subordinate legislation: Neil Gray (Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care) to move— S6M-13020—That the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee recommends that the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (Independent Health Care) Modification Order 2024 [draft] be approved. S6M-13021—That the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee recommends that the Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Inspections) Amendment Regulations 2024 [draft] be approved. 5. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instrument— Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Fees) Regulations 2024: SSI 2024/130 6. Tobacco and Vapes Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will take evidence on legislative consent memorandum LCM-S6-44 from— Dr Pete Cheema OBE, Chief Executive, Scottish Grocers Federation; John Dunne, Director General, UK Vaping Industry Association; and then from— Sheila Duffy, Chief Executive, ASH Scotland; Dr Garth Reid, Consultant in Public Health, Public Health Scotland. 7. Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider its approach to the scrutiny of the Bill at Stage 1. 8. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider a draft report on the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (Independent Health Care) Modification Order 2024 [draft] and the Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Inspections) Amendment Regulations 2024 [draft]. 9. Annual report: The Committee will consider a draft annual report for the parliamentary year from 13 May 2023 to 12 May 2024. 10. Healthcare in remote and rural areas (in private): The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 2. 11. Tobacco and Vapes Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 6.