10:00
Under agenda item 2, we are considering four instruments, on which no points have been raised.
Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No 1) Regulations 2026 [Draft]
The Official Report is a written record of what was said in public meetings of the Scottish Parliament and in committee meetings. It is a substantially verbatim report. This means that repetitions and redundancies are omitted and obvious mistakes are corrected. Official Report staff exercise editorial judgment to convey the spoken word in written text while maintaining the flavour of the speech.
Members indicated agreement.
Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No 2) Regulations 2026 [Draft]
The Official Report is a written record of what was said in public meetings of the Scottish Parliament and in committee meetings. It is a substantially verbatim report. This means that repetitions and redundancies are omitted and obvious mistakes are corrected. Official Report staff exercise editorial judgment to convey the spoken word in written text while maintaining the flavour of the speech.
Members indicated agreement.
National Bus Travel Concession Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Order 2026 [Draft]
Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/149)
09:18
The Official Report is a written record of what was said in public meetings of the Scottish Parliament and in committee meetings. It is a substantially verbatim report. This means that repetitions and redundancies are omitted and obvious mistakes are corrected. Official Report staff exercise editorial judgment to convey the spoken word in written text while maintaining the flavour of the speech.
Meeting closed at 09:20.
Home Detention Curfew (Amendment of Specified Time Periods) (Scotland) Order 2025 [Draft]
09:10
Under agenda item 1, we must decide whether to take in private item 5, which is consideration of today’s evidence from the Climate Change Committee, and item 6, which is consideration of our work programme. Do we agree to take those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Investment Zones Relief) (Scotland) Order 2026 [Draft]
Good morning, and a warm welcome to the 20th meeting in 2025 of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee. Our first agenda item is to take evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture on the Scottish Government’s humanitarian response to Gaza. We are joined in the room by the cabinet secretary, Angus Robertson, along with Joanna Keating, head of international development; Alice Guinan, humanitarian and conflict lead; and Stuart Adam, head of Asia team, international relations, from the Scottish Government. We welcome you all to the committee. Cabinet secretary, would you like to make an opening statement?
Is the committee content that no reporting grounds are engaged?
Members indicated agreement.
In the Scottish statutory instrument report on the draft Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No 2) Regulations 2026, does the committee wish to mention that the minor formatting issues in the Burial and Cremation (Applications and Registers) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/360) that the committee identified last week arise also in some of the forms in this draft instrument?
Members indicated agreement.
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