Meeting of the Parliament, Continued

Portfolio Questions Education and Skills Claire Baker S6O-02632 1. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met COSLA to discuss pay awards in schools. Kenneth Gibson S6O-02633 2. To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making on implementing the recommendations on the skills delivery landscape in the report, Fit for the Future: developing a post-school learning system to fuel economic transformation. Clare Adamson S6O-02634 3. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the potential role of emerging video games technology in education and skills development. Monica Lennon S6O-02635 4. To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any link between nutrition and behaviour in its work to address violence in schools. Annie Wells 5. [Withdrawn] Maurice Golden S6O-02637 6. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the education secretary has had with ministerial colleagues regarding action to reduce instances of vaping in schools. Jamie Greene S6O-02638 7. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase the number of new secondary school teachers. Kaukab Stewart S6O-02639 8. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on any discussions between the City of Glasgow College senior management and trade union representatives regarding the ongoing industrial dispute. followed by Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee Debate: Embedding Public Participation in the Work of the Parliament Jackson Carlaw S6M-10765 That the Parliament notes the conclusions of the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee’s 2nd Report, 2023 (Session 6), Embedding Public Participation in the Work of the Parliament (SP Paper 427), including its responses to the recommendations of the Citizens’ Panel on participation; agrees with the Committee’s recommendation that the Parliament establish two further citizens’ panels (or people’s panels) in the current parliamentary session with a view to making the use of such panels a regular feature of committee scrutiny from Session 7 onwards; endorses the Committee’s recommended principles for the future use of deliberative democracy and its recommendations for panel size, composition and participant selection, and acknowledges the work already being done by Parliament staff to develop and improve engagement methods.