Health and Sport Committee

1. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019 [draft] from—
Joe FitzPatrick, Minister for Public Health, Sport and Wellbeing, Claire Montgomery, Solicitor, Legal Directorate, Lynne Nicol, Head of Openness and Learning, and David Leslie, Policy Manager, Openness and Learning Unit, Scottish Government.

2. Subordinate legislation: Joe FitzPatrick, Minister for Public Health Sport and Wellbeing, to move—
S5M-19060—That the Health and Sport Committee recommends that the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019 [draft] be approved.

3. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instrument—
The National Health Service (Serious Shortage Protocols) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/284).

4. Social prescribing of physical activity and sport inquiry: The Committee will take evidence from-
Professor Richard Davison, Professor of Exercise Physiology, University of the West of Scotland, representing the Observatory for Sport in Scotland;
Dr William Bird, General Practitioner and Chief Executive Officer, Intelligent Health;
Kirsty McNab, Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Sports Futures;
Dr Katie Walter, General Practitioner, Cairn Medical Practice;
Flora Jackson, Health Improvement Manager, Physical Activity and Health Alliance (NHS Health Scotland);
Claire Thirwall, Health and Wellbeing Specialist, NHS Dumfries & Galloway;
Martin Hayman, Project Manager, Community Table Tennis, Table Tennis Scotland;
Kim Atkinson, Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Sports Association;
Dr Corinne Jola, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and researcher/practitioner in dance, health and wellbeing, Abertay University.

5. Petitions: The Committee will consider the following petitions—
PE01568 by Catherine Hughes on the funding, access and promotion of the NHS Centre for Integrative Care; PE01605 by Peter Gregson on behalf of Kids not Suits, Whistleblowing in the NHS - a safer way to report mismanagement and bullying; PE01698 by Karen Murphy, Jane Rentoul, David Wilkie, Louisa Rogers and Jennifer Jane Lee, Medical care in rural areas; and PE01533 by Jeff Adamson on behalf of Scotland Against the Care Tax, Abolition of non-residential social care charges for older and disabled people.

6. Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will consider the legislative consent memorandum lodged by Jeane Freeman, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (LCM (S5) 25).

7. Social prescribing of physical activity and sport inquiry (in private): The Committee will consider the evidence heard earlier in the meeting.

8. Primary Care Inquiry - Phase Two (in private): The Committee will consider evidence heard on the 1 and 8 October 2019 on its Primary Care Inquiry - Phase Two.


Proposed future business

For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, David Cullum on 0131 348 5210 or by email healthandsport@parliament.scot