Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
The Committee was established in June 2021. It focuses on:
- health services in Scotland, including performance, staffing and funding
- NHS recovery and remobilisation
- primary care, including dentistry, GPs, and pharmacy services
- public health including mental health and wellbeing, and tackling drug and alcohol misuse
- social care
- sport and physical activity
Next meeting of the committee
Details of the next meeting are not available yet.
Dates for future meetings
The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee usually meets weekly on Tuesdays.
Previous meetings of the committee
Work of the Committee
Facal-luirg
Facal-luirg
Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill
Alternative pathways into primary care
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
Budget scrutiny 2024-25
Budget scrutiny 2025-26
Experiences of the Complex Mesh Surgical Service
Health and wellbeing of children and young people
Health inequalities
Healthcare in remote and rural areas
Inquiry into female participation in sport and physical activity
NHS boards scrutiny
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill
Perinatal Mental Health
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary
Racism in Sport
Transvaginal Mesh Removal Cost Reimbursement Scotland Bill
Winter planning 2023-24
Correspondence
Correspondence
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Funding to support pay parity for independent Hospices
25 July 2025
Correspondence from the Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health to the HSCS Convener in regards to funding to support pay parity for Independent Hospices, 25 July 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Planned Care funding update 23 July 2025
23 July 2025
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care to the Health and Social Care Committee Convener 2025-26 Planned Care funding update, 23 July 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Scottish Government adoption of Nordic definition of deafblindness
30 June 2025
Letter from Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing to HSCS Committee in relation to the Scottish Government's decision to adopt the Nordic definition of deafblindness, 27 June 2025
Official Reports of meetings
Official Reports of meetings
Meeting date: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Children’s and Young People’s Participation in Sport and Physical Activity
Meeting date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Welfare and Sustainability in Scottish Youth Football
Meeting date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Care Inspectorate, Food Standards Scotland, Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Pandemic Preparedness, Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Interests, Decision on Taking Business in Private, Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1, Employment Rights Bill (UK Parliament Legislation)
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Employment Rights Bill (UK Parliament Legislation), Subordinate Legislation, Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Tobacco and Vapes Bill
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1, Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1, Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1, Subordinate Legislation
Reports
Committee reports
Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) on the Employment Rights Bill
This report sets out the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's consideration of the Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) on the Employment Rights Bill.
Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill
This report sets out the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's consideration of the Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM-S6-51) and subsequent supplementary LCM-S6-51a on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
Facal-luirg
Clare Haughey
Convener
Scottish National Party
Paul Sweeney
Deputy Convener
Scottish Labour
Joe FitzPatrick
Member
Scottish National Party
Dr Sandesh Gulhane
Member
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Emma Harper
Member
Scottish National Party
Patrick Harvie
Member
Scottish Green Party
Carol Mochan
Member
Scottish Labour
David Torrance
Member
Scottish National Party
Elena Whitham
Member
Scottish National Party
Brian Whittle
Member
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Full details of committee membership, including substitute and previous members