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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 16 September 2025
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

National Good Food Nation Plan

Meeting date: 2 September 2025

Clare Haughey

We will continue our previous agenda item by taking further evidence on the proposed national good food nation plan. I welcome to the committee Mairi Gougeon, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands. She is accompanied by James Hamilton, lawyer; Tracy McCollin, head of the good food nation team; Jo Mitchell, procurement policy manager; and James Wilson, population health strategy and improvement, all from the Scottish Government.

I understand that the cabinet secretary wishes to make an opening statement.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

National Good Food Nation Plan

Meeting date: 2 September 2025

Clare Haughey

I call Sandesh Gulhane.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

National Good Food Nation Plan

Meeting date: 2 September 2025

Clare Haughey

Cabinet secretary, I thank you and your officials for your attendance today.

At next week’s meeting, we will commence taking oral evidence as part of the committee’s pre-budget scrutiny for 2026-27. That concludes the public part of today’s meeting.

12:14 Meeting continued in private until 12:25.  

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Meeting date: 2 September 2025

Clare Haughey

Good morning, and welcome to the 21st meeting in 2025 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received no apologies.

Agenda item 1 is to ask the committee to agree to take items 4 and 5 in private. Do members agree to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Employment Rights Bill

Meeting date: 2 September 2025

Clare Haughey

The next item is to take oral evidence on a further supplementary legislative consent memorandum on the Employment Rights Bill. The bill’s purpose is to deliver the key legislative reforms that are set out in the United Kingdom Government’s plan to make work pay.

The bill’s explanatory note states that its purpose is to

“update and enhance existing employment rights and make provision for new rights; make provision regarding pay and conditions in particular sectors; ... make reforms in relation to trade union matters and industrial action”,

and to create

“a new regime for the enforcement of employment law.”

The committee previously took evidence on an earlier supplementary LCM on the Employment Rights Bill in May this year, and it published a report on that previous supplementary LCM on 10 June. The further supplementary LCM—LCM-S6-53b, which is currently under consideration—was lodged in the Scottish Parliament on 14 August. It recommends legislative consent with respect to amendments to clauses 44 to 46 and 49 of the bill, which were tabled on 7 July.

I welcome Tom Arthur, Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing, along with Anne Cairns, solicitor; Danny Duffy, who deals with fair work and social care; David Holmes, who deals with fair work and the economy; and Rachael Thomas, who deals with fair work and social care, all from the Scottish Government. I invite the minister to make an opening statement.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Employment Rights Bill

Meeting date: 2 September 2025

Clare Haughey

Thank you, minister, for that comprehensive statement. I have had no indication from members that they have any questions. I think that the committee has already scrutinised several LCMs on the bill.

08:50 Meeting continued in private. 09:03 Meeting continued in public.  

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

National Good Food Nation Plan

Meeting date: 2 September 2025

Clare Haughey

Professor Jaacks, very briefly, please.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

National Good Food Nation Plan

Meeting date: 2 September 2025

Clare Haughey

We must move on, because we are running hugely behind time and still have seven themes to cover. We might be able to get back to some of what you were going to ask.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

National Good Food Nation Plan

Meeting date: 2 September 2025

Clare Haughey

Thank you, cabinet secretary, that is much appreciated. We will move straight to questions from Carol Mochan.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

National Good Food Nation Plan

Meeting date: 2 September 2025

Clare Haughey

Under the next agenda item, we will take oral evidence on the proposed national good food nation plan that the Scottish Government published on 27 June. I welcome to the committee Mhairi Brown, who is head of food futures at the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission Scotland; Anna Chworow, who is deputy director of Nourish Scotland and is representing the Scottish Food Coalition; Claire Hislop, who is the organisational lead for food and physical activity at Public Health Scotland; and Professor Lindsay Jaacks, who is the deputy director and personal chair of global health and nutrition at the University of Edinburgh. We move straight to questions.