Committee
Public Petitions Committee 01 March 2016
01 Mar 2016 · S4 · Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
Continued Petitions
Food Banks (Funding) (PE1571)
We will need to check whether the Welfare Reform Committee has drawn up its legacy paper; it might be too late for the petition to be included in it. If so, we can include it in our own legacy paper, with the suggestion that it be sent to the Welfare Reform Committee at some point in the next session. Does the committee agree? Members indicated agreement.
In the same item of business
The Convener
Lab
PE1571, by John Beattie, is on food bank funding. The responses to the petition are, I think, very clear but it, too, involves an on-going issue. Is the Welf...
John Wilson
Ind
I agree that we should pass the petition on to the Welfare Reform Committee, and we should also ask it to include it in its legacy paper, given that it conce...
The Convener
Lab
We will need to check whether the Welfare Reform Committee has drawn up its legacy paper; it might be too late for the petition to be included in it. If so, ...