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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 15 August 2025
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Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Future Parliamentary Procedures and Practices Inquiry

Meeting date: 26 May 2022

Martin Whitfield

Bill, did you have a comment?

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Future Parliamentary Procedures and Practices Inquiry

Meeting date: 26 May 2022

Martin Whitfield

You should never feel guilty about demanding that your 成人快手 do work鈥攄o not worry about that.

Kimberly Somerside, what has your experience been over the past 18 months?

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Future Parliamentary Procedures and Practices Inquiry

Meeting date: 26 May 2022

Martin Whitfield

09:08  

I welcome to the evidence session Artemis Pana, national co-ordinator, Scottish Rural Action; Bill Scott, senior policy adviser, Inclusion Scotland; Charis Scott, Scotland promotion and engagement manager, Christians Against Poverty; and Mhairi Wylie, chief officer, Highland Third Sector Interface, and member of the TSI Scotland Network, which is a body of charities that supports the third sector across Scotland. Those witnesses join us online.

In the room, we have Liam Fowley, former MSYP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley and former vice-chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament; and Kimberley Somerside, policy and engagement officer, Voluntary Health Scotland.

I remind those who are joining us online to type R in the chat function on the BlueJeans platform if they would like to come in on any issues. I am hoping that the session can be in the form of a round table, with conversation and discussion through me as convener, and your input will help with the report that we are preparing.

I will kick off with Artemis Pana and work through those witnesses who are joining us online before inviting contributions from those who are in the room. To what extent do you normally engage with the Parliament, and how has that been different since Covid?

That is an enormous question about what we have been through in the past 18 months or so and how that has affected your interactions with the Parliament. Your answer might cover frequency of engagement on issues, whom you have engaged with鈥攃ommittees or others鈥攁nd the ways in which that engagement has happened.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Meeting date: 26 May 2022

Martin Whitfield

Good morning. I apologise for the slight delay to the start of the 13th meeting in 2022 of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. We have received apologies from Edward Mountain MSP. In his place, we are joined by Sue Webber MSP.

Agenda item 1 is a decision on whether to take in private items 5, 6 and 7, as well as future consideration of the code of conduct rule changes, the draft report on future parliamentary procedures and practices and consideration of a revision to the directions to the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland. Do we agree to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Meeting date: 26 May 2022

Martin Whitfield

I am grateful. We will postpone items 2 and 3 to a future meeting, at a time to be agreed. That takes us to item 4.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Future Parliamentary Procedures and Practices Inquiry

Meeting date: 26 May 2022

Martin Whitfield

Thank you all for your contributions. I will now invite various members of the committee to ask questions. As all conveners say鈥攁cross the whole world, I have now discovered鈥攏ot everyone needs to answer the questions but, if you have something that you would like to contribute, please type R in the chat function or indicate to me.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Future Parliamentary Procedures and Practices Inquiry

Meeting date: 26 May 2022

Martin Whitfield

I will pass questioning over to Collette Stevenson, who is a great advocate of committee visits.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Future Parliamentary Procedures and Practices Inquiry

Meeting date: 26 May 2022

Martin Whitfield

I will push you slightly on that point. We have discussed the committees, CPGs and other areas of interaction. A comment that we have heard on a number of occasions, from different sources, is that the hybrid method that we use reduces the gravitas鈥攖o pick up on the word that you used鈥攁nd importance of the Parliament. Would you agree with that? Should we be cognisant of, and guard against, that issue? Are we moving into a time when those outside the Parliament who engage with it are fully aware of the importance of the Parliament and, at times, perhaps need the Parliament to be aware of its own importance?

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Future Parliamentary Procedures and Practices Inquiry

Meeting date: 26 May 2022

Martin Whitfield

Thank you.That is helpful.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Scottish Local Government Elections (Candidacy Rights of Foreign Nationals) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 12 May 2022

Martin Whitfield

That ends stage 2 consideration of the bill. I thank the minister and his officials for attending.

I move the meeting into private for consideration of item 5.

09:42 Meeting continued in private until 11:02.