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Clare Haughey SNP Committee
23 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I covered some of the primary legislation that Mr Dey has alluded to in answer to Mr Marra’s earlier question. The pieces of primary legislation in question, which are all listed in schedule 3 to the bill, relate to local authority social work functions and duties. We are in t...
The Convener SNP Committee
16 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
The second item on our agenda is an oral evidence-taking session with two panels of witnesses as part of the committee’s stage 1 scrutiny of the Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill. The first of this morning’s panels will focus on part 2 ...
Clare Haughey (Rutherglen) (SNP) SNP Chamber
18 Sep 2025
SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review
I thank the committee for its work on this important topic and for its comprehensive and detailed report. The on-going requests from organisations, individuals and members’ bills seeking to significantly increase the number of commissioners and, thereby, SPCB-supported bodies,...
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Under the second item, we will take oral evidence from two panels of witnesses as part of the committee’s stage 1 scrutiny of the Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill. This morning we will focus specifically on part 1 of the bill. Our fir...
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We will continue agenda item 2 by taking evidence from a second panel of witnesses on the Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill. Our second panel comprises representatives of the cosmetic procedures industry. I welcome to the committee Lesl...
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I thank the witnesses for their evidence. At our next meeting, on Tuesday 9 December, the committee will continue its scrutiny of the Non-Surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill, taking oral evidence from two further panels of witnesses. That con...
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
The second item on our agenda is to take evidence from two panels of witnesses as part of the committee’s stage 1 scrutiny of the Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill. This morning our scrutiny of the bill is specifically focused on part 1...
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We continue item 2 by taking evidence from a panel of witnesses on the Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill. Our second panel comprises representatives of regulators, enforcers and inspectors. I welcome Laura Boyce, chief inspector of regu...
The Convener SNP Committee
16 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Under agenda item 2, we will continue taking oral evidence on the Non-Surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill, and I welcome to the committee Jenni Minto, the Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health, and her officials. Supporting the minist...
The Convener SNP Committee
16 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We will now continue our evidence-taking session with the Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health on the Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill. In this part of the meeting, we will be focusing on part 2, and supporting the minister ar...
Clare Haughey (Rutherglen) (SNP) SNP Chamber
05 Feb 2026
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
As convener, I am pleased to open the stage 1 debate on the Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill on behalf of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I thank everyone who contributed to the committee’s stage 1 scrutiny of the bill by ...
The Convener (Clare Haughey) SNP Committee
24 Feb 2026
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Good morning, and welcome to the ninth meeting in 2026 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received no apologies.Our first and only agenda item is consideration of the Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill at stage 2. I w...
Clare Haughey (Rutherglen) (SNP) SNP Chamber
21 Jun 2017
Motor Neurone Disease Global Awareness Day
I thank Christina McKelvie for securing the debate, which allows us the opportunity to recognise the important and inspiring work that MND Scotland is doing. There can be no doubt that Gordon Aikman’s brave and very public battle with this progressive condition, while at the s...
Clare Haughey (Rutherglen) (SNP) SNP Committee
25 Oct 2017
Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Unfortunately, I have a question for DCI Conway—sorry, but we seem to be targeting you. You mentioned a concern hub. For those of us who are unaware, could you tell the committee what that is and how it functions?
Clare Haughey SNP Chamber
08 Sep 2020
Baroness Cumberlege Report
The independent case review will look at that, among other issues. We note members’ concerns about women who want, because they lack trust in services, to seek treatment elsewhere. It is vital that every time a patient accesses any part of the healthcare system, that person...
The Minister for Children and Young People (Clare Haughey) SNP Committee
30 Nov 2021
Subordinate Legislation
Thank you for inviting me to say a few words on the draft regulations. The amendments are technical and are necessary to ensure that the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019 can be applied as intended. The 2019 act raised the age of criminal responsibility in Sco...
Clare Haughey SNP Committee
23 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I have a point to make in relation to Mr Marra’s question about schedule 3 of the bill and the acts that are mentioned there. All of those acts cover social work-related local authority functions and duties—that is why they are included in schedule 3. We will give on-going co...
Clare Haughey SNP Chamber
25 Jan 2023
Childcare
I was about to come on to the work that we are doing to promote and increase recruitment to childminding. I accept that there has been a drop in the number of childminders in Scotland—that is a fact. However, the decline is replicated across the UK and is not unique to Scotlan...
Clare Haughey (Rutherglen) (SNP) SNP Chamber
10 May 2023
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
I refer members to my entry in the register of members’ interests. I am a registered mental health nurse, with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration. In September 2020, the Parliament debated the independent medicines and medical devices safety review—the Cumberl...
The Convener SNP Committee
13 Jun 2023
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 2
The result of the division is: For 4, Against 6, Abstentions 0. Amendment 13 disagreed to. Schedule 1 agreed to. Section 2—Functions 09:15
Clare Haughey (Rutherglen) (SNP) SNP Chamber
01 Feb 2024
Budget 2024-25
The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee recently concluded its pre-budget scrutiny for 2024-25. The exercise highlighted several important themes as key areas for the Scottish Government to work on over the coming years. The first of those themes relates to multiyear budg...
Clare Haughey (Rutherglen) (SNP) SNP Chamber
28 Feb 2024
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Referral Back to Lead Committee at Stage 1
The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee has undertaken extensive scrutiny of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill since its introduction in June 2022. That has included two calls for written evidence, 18 panels of witnesses, three oral evidence sessions and multiple e...
Clare Haughey SNP Chamber
29 Feb 2024
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
The committee considered the bill in its entirety, including all the different sections, one of which concerns Anne’s law. The consensus agreement with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities on shared legal accountability means that a number of the bill’s key aspects wi...
The Convener SNP Committee
01 Oct 2024
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
I want to just finish up with a specific question for Fiona Davies. You work in NHS Highland, which is the only health board to operate a lead agency model instead of the model that is used in the rest of the country. Is that model an advantage or a disadvantage with regard to...
Clare Haughey (Rutherglen) (SNP) SNP Chamber
12 Mar 2025
Single-sex Spaces (Public Sector)
Women experience and navigate public space differently from men, and that has long been the case. Pre-existing gender inequalities have dictated women’s patterns of movement and participation outside the home for decades, if not centuries. There are the dynamics of paid and un...
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We will come on to some of those themes further on, Ms McCaffery, so can you contain your remarks to the questions that have been asked?
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Thank you. Sorry, it was difficult to get your attention because you are online.
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I am sorry, Ms Wilson—I will have to get you to wind up.
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We have 50 minutes left of the session and we still have an awful lot of questions to get through, so it would be helpful if we could keep questions short and answers concise.
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I believe that Tina McCaffery wants to come in.
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Tina, do you want to come in at this point? You are on mute, Tina. No, we still cannot hear you. I will go to Douglas White while we try to sort that out.
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Mr Harvie, if it is all right to go to Tina McCaffery now, we will do so; I think that we have sound. Unfortunately, we do not have sound. Back to you, Mr Harvie.
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I will move to questions from Elena Whitham, because we have only nine minutes left of our meeting. If Tina is able to speak in response to the questions, she can perhaps address those other issues.
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I thank the witnesses for their evidence. I briefly suspend the meeting for a changeover of witnesses. 10:59 Meeting suspended. 11:10 On resuming—
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Please be brief.
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Ms Whitham, a licensing scheme will come in, in parallel with this bill.
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Sorry—I said that in case we were going to go off on a tangent. Was there anything else you wanted to ask?
The Convener SNP Committee
02 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We will have a final question from Sandesh Gulhane.
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I am sorry to interrupt but we have limited time. Could you please direct your answers to the questions from the committee?
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We have a lot to get through. Therefore, can we keep our answers concise, so that we can actually get the information that we are looking for?
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We are going to come on to that.
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I would ask you to stick to the specific question.
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We have touched on the subject of gathering data and reporting mechanisms throughout the morning, and we certainly touched on it with the panels who were before us last week. I am keen to hear your views on a centralised adverse event reporting system, a national register and ...
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Who should gather that data?
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Sorry, but it is really difficult for—
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
It is difficult for the official reporters to record the meeting accurately—
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
—if you speak over each other.
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Would all practitioners use the yellow-card system and report back to manufacturers if there were complications with a treatment?
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We have spoken about some practitioners who have perhaps not had the same level of training in these treatments that you have had. Are you assured that they would report that information back?
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I appreciate that. I suppose that I am looking at how things currently are. We do not necessarily have a complete picture—
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
With regard to public awareness of the proposed changes should the bill become law, should mandatory information be given to consumers to ensure that the bill works and so that the public understand what they are consenting to when they go to a clinic for Botox, filler, a chem...
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
They may not currently be aware of a risk when they are engaging in a treatment.
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Sorry—can we have just one person speaking at a time? As I said, it is difficult for the official report to record the meeting accurately if several people are speaking. Remmy Jones, did you want to come in?
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Please be very brief.
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I thank the witnesses for their evidence this morning. I am going to briefly suspend the meeting so that the witnesses can change over. 10:26 Meeting suspended. 10:36 On resuming—
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I am a wee bit confused, Laura, because you started off by saying that you think that the bill is clear and that there is lots of clarification in it, but you have just cited a lot of areas where you would like to see more clarification.
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I am really keen to explore that, because what you have said are small points of clarification are, to me, big issues of law. Who will delegate? Who will supervise? What training is required? I see those as fundamental aspects of the regulation of the procedures that we are ta...
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Kind of. I am still hearing that there are lots of areas of clarification that need to be teased out or established for the bill to fundamentally do what it sets out to do. Do you see the procedures that the bill covers as being clearly defined?
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Does anyone else want to come in at this point?
The Convener SNP Committee
09 Dec 2025
Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Is the bill clear enough on what will constitute supervision or management by a healthcare professional? That might be a question for you, Paula, given that you are here as an NMC representative.
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Education, Children and Young People Committee 23 November 2022

23 Nov 2022 · S6 · Education, Children and Young People Committee
Item of business
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Haughey, Clare SNP Rutherglen Watch on SPTV
I covered some of the primary legislation that Mr Dey has alluded to in answer to Mr Marra’s earlier question. The pieces of primary legislation in question, which are all listed in schedule 3 to the bill, relate to local authority social work functions and duties. We are in the process of identifying all the relevant Scottish statutory instruments that might be affected if those functions were to be transferred, and much of that work has already been done. Where adjustments to SSIs are needed to further reflect the transfer of functions, that can be done through the ancillary powers in section 45 of the bill. I hope that that will reassure Mr Dey a bit. I am afraid, though, that I will have to ask him to repeat the second part of his question. I must apologise for not scribbling it down.

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The Convener (Sue Webber) Con
Good morning, and welcome to the 29th meeting in 2022 of the Education, Children and Young People Committee. We have received apologies from Stephen Kerr. T...
The Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care (Kevin Stewart) SNP
Good morning. Thank you very much, convener, for having Ms Haughey and me here today. I will give an overview of our approach to the bill, and Ms Haughey wi...
The Minister for Children and Young People (Clare Haughey) SNP
Good morning, and thank you for the committee’s invitation to be here. Mr Stewart has spoken about what we hope to achieve with this reform of Scotland’s co...
The Convener Con
I thank you both for your opening statements. In our previous two committee meetings, we heard from an extensive list of stakeholders. No one is looking for...
Kevin Stewart SNP
The committee can be assured that this will not become a bureaucratic nightmare. This is about improving services for people across the country. As we have a...
Iona Colvin (Scottish Government)
Thanks, Mr Stewart. The first thing to say is that the status quo will not be an option if we are to have a national care service with adult services in it. ...
Kevin Stewart SNP
Convener, I am sure that the committee has some of this information already, but we can provide more of it. There are 31 integration authorities in Scotland ...
The Convener Con
I think that we have that information, minister, but thank you for the offer. Ms Colvin’s answer explains some of that thread, which I know that we will pick...
Kevin Stewart SNP
Convener, we have embarked on this journey towards a national care service because of Derek Feeley’s independent review of adult social care; it is not a whi...
The Convener Con
We might well jump around with regard to some of the statements that you have just made, minister. I know that there will be questions on the issues that you...
Graeme Dey (Angus South) (SNP) SNP
Mr Stewart, you have talked about addressing the postcode lottery and getting a service that is fit for tomorrow. We all want that, but you have also mention...
Kevin Stewart SNP
I recognise that legislation and regulation do not necessarily change cultures. Indeed, we have examples of that in some of the very good legislation that ha...
Graeme Dey SNP
You could have cited the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 as another example of local delivery not living up to the expectations of the legislation. As I read it, ...
Kevin Stewart SNP
Absolutely. The week before last, I was at the carers parliament and a large amount of the questioning from the floor was about why money that had been alloc...
The Convener Con
We move to questions from Willie Rennie.
Willie Rennie (North East Fife) (LD) LD
I am not sure that it is correct to brand the senior people that we have had appearing before the committee as recalcitrant and resistant to change. Claire B...
Kevin Stewart SNP
Convener—Interruption. I am sorry—does Clare Haughey want to go first?
Clare Haughey SNP
No, no—that is all right. I will come in to address the second part of Mr Rennie’s question.
Kevin Stewart SNP
I have not talked this morning about anybody being resistant to change—I want to put that on record. However, we sometimes have to take folk on a journey to ...
Clare Haughey SNP
To follow on from what my colleague has said, the independent review into adult social care made recommendations that are equally applicable to children’s se...
Willie Rennie LD
You are not looking at the whole system, though, are you? You have already decided that you are creating a national care service, which will have ramificatio...
Kevin Stewart SNP
We are going to have a national care service to deal with adult social care.
Willie Rennie LD
Irrespective of the conclusion on children’s services?
Kevin Stewart SNP
That was the recommendation from the Feeley review. That is what the voices of lived experience want. That is what many stakeholders want. As we have explain...
Willie Rennie LD
That makes my point for me—I am sorry to interrupt, Mr Stewart. You are making this up as you go along.
Kevin Stewart SNP
Not at all.
Willie Rennie LD
You are already deciding that you will have a big disruption, with a new law to create a national care service, but without even deciding what is going to be...
Kevin Stewart SNP
The Government stood on a manifesto commitment of creating—
Willie Rennie LD
Not this.
Kevin Stewart SNP
It stood on a manifesto commitment of creating a national care service to cover adult social care. Since then, we have listened to people who have said that ...