Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting Agenda
17th Meeting, 2023
- Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2023
- Session: 6
- Location: T1.40-CR5 The Smith Room
- Start time: 10:30am
- Published: Friday, November 17, 2023 04:01pm
1 Decision on taking business in private
The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private.
2 Consideration of continued petitions
The Committee will consider PE1947: Address Scotland's culture of youth violence, taking evidence from—
Dr Fern Gillon, Research Associate, University of Glasgow
Dr Susan Batchelor, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Glasgow
and then consider—
PE1854: Review the adult disability payment eligibility criteria for people with mobility needs;
PE1931: Improve the R100 rollout by prioritising properties who currently have speeds of less than 5 Mbps;
PE1936: Remove potholes from Scotland's roads;
PE1958: Extend aftercare for previously looked after young people, and remove the continuing care age cap;
PE1970: Create an online account for parents to manage the 1140 hours of Early Learning and Childcare funding; and
PE1997: Introduce mandatory braille labelling for food products sold in Scotland.
CPPP/S6/23/17/1(P) (Private Paper)
PE1947 182KB pdf posted 16/11/2023 (Ref: CPPP/S6/23/17/2)
CPPP/S6/23/17/3(P) (Private Paper)
PE1854 206KB pdf posted 16/11/2023 (Ref: CPPP/S6/23/17/4)
PE1931 157KB pdf posted 16/11/2023 (Ref: CPPP/S6/23/17/5)
PE1936 152KB pdf posted 16/11/2023 (Ref: CPPP/S6/23/17/6)
PE1958 710KB pdf posted 16/11/2023 (Ref: CPPP/S6/23/17/7)
PE1970 209KB pdf posted 16/11/2023 (Ref: CPPP/S6/23/17/8)
PE1997 223KB pdf posted 16/11/2023 (Ref: CPPP/S6/23/17/9)
3 Consideration of new petitions
The Committee will consider the following new petitions—
PE2042: Abolish car parking charges for all Forestry and Land Scotland sites;
PE2045: Lower the cervical cancer smear test age in Scotland to 16; and
PE2047: Make malicious false allegations a hate crime.
PE2042 150KB pdf posted 16/11/2023 (Ref: CPPP/S6/23/17/10)
PE2045 135KB pdf posted 16/11/2023 (Ref: CPPP/S6/23/17/11)
PE2047 245KB pdf posted 16/11/2023 (Ref: CPPP/S6/23/17/12)
4 Consideration of evidence
The Committee will consider the evidence it heard on PE1947: Address Scotland's culture of youth violence.