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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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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 20 August 2025
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Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Continued Petitions

Meeting date: 18 May 2022

David Torrance

Good morning, Mr Lyon. The lack of engagement with local communities on the future of air traffic control in the areas concerned caused real problems. Why was there a lack of engagement? Can you assure us that, if anything is going to change in the future strategy for the area, you will engage with the communities?

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Continued Petitions

Meeting date: 18 May 2022

David Torrance

Why were HIAL staff and recognised trade unions not involved in the development of the air traffic management strategy from the outset? How do you intend to involve staff in the development of any future strategies? Would that not have helped industrial relations?

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Continued Petitions

Meeting date: 18 May 2022

David Torrance

I agree with the suggestion.

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Continued Petitions

Meeting date: 18 May 2022

David Torrance

We should write to the Scottish Government to ask whether it intends to take any further action to collect and evaluate information on the use of judicial discretion under section 19A of the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 to disapply time limits for bringing legal proceedings in certain actions and what action that might be.

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Continued Petitions

Meeting date: 18 May 2022

David Torrance

We should keep the petition open, but in doing so, I would like us to write to Social Security Scotland to highlight the concerns of the petitioner and the recommendations for improving its system that are set out in Macmillan Cancer Support鈥檚 submission. It recommends regularly publishing processing times for benefit applications broken down by condition, ensuring that processing times for special rules cases are kept to the minimum period of around a few days, reducing the processing times for applications for non-terminal patients to 11 weeks or less and considering maximising the use of paper-based assessments and making greater use of evidence from medical professionals to limit the need for unnecessary face-to-face assessments.

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Continued Petitions

Meeting date: 18 May 2022

David Torrance

As the Scottish Government is already considering the speed limits for HGVs, and as Transport Scotland has indicated its willingness to engage directly with the petitioner on the matter, I think that we could maybe close the petition under rule 15.7 of standing orders.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Social Care

Meeting date: 17 May 2022

David Torrance

Good morning, minister. What evaluation has the Scottish Government made of the impact of the current commissioning arrangements on the social care workforce, and how could and should those be addressed?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Social Care

Meeting date: 17 May 2022

David Torrance

You mentioned that there are nearly 1,200 employers, which must be difficult to control. However, Audit Scotland highlighted that 20 per cent of workers are not on permanent contracts, 11 per cent are on zero-hours contracts and 13 per cent work more than 50 hours a week. What is your view on establishing national minimum standards of pay and conditions for all social care workers, regardless of what sector they work in?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Social Care

Meeting date: 17 May 2022

David Torrance

Minister, Audit Scotland highlighted the 5.1 per cent vacancy rate in the sector. How difficult has Brexit, along with United Kingdom immigration policy, made it for employers to recruit staff in this area?

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Continued Petition

Meeting date: 12 May 2022

David Torrance

Thank you very much for that, but what I am trying to get on the record is whether you think that, if those criteria are not in place in a general hospital setting where repairs are being carried out, the procedure will not be as successful. Are you saying that mesh repairs would not be suitable for the patients who do not meet the criteria?