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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 4 July 2025
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Clare Haughey

I have some final questions, cabinet secretary. Again, there might be issues that you cannot comment on.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Clare Haughey

I thank the panel members for their attendance today. The committee has found your evidence to be very helpful in our scrutiny of the bill at stage 1. I briefly suspend the meeting to change over witnesses.

10:02 Meeting suspended.  

10:14 On resuming—  

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Clare Haughey

Thank you very much, cabinet secretary. We will move straight to questions.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Clare Haughey

Before I ask my question, I put it on the record that I hold a bank nurse contract with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Can you clarify, cabinet secretary, whether you are talking about training costs for medical staff or for all healthcare staff? We anticipate that there would be pharmacists involved, and nursing staff, and perhaps other allied health professionals.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Clare Haughey

Thank you very much for that clarity.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Clare Haughey

Has the Scottish Government come to any decision or any conclusion about whether an oversight body should be convened to monitor the function of the legislation should the bill pass?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Clare Haughey

I appreciate that and the committee understands that you have set out the Government’s position.

Does the Government have an opinion on the proposed five-year review period of the legislation or the suggestion that the bill should include a sunset clause?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Clare Haughey

That was for doctors only. So, for the entirety of the healthcare staff who may be involved if the bill passes, the training costs could be anticipated to be greater.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Clare Haughey

The first item on our agenda is consideration of a negative instrument, the purpose of which is to introduce the mandatory fortification of non-wholemeal wheat flour with folic acid. That is intended to be a public health intervention that will work alongside other public health measures to help to reduce the incidence of foetal neural tube defects in Scotland by increasing the dietary intake of folic acid, and therefore blood folate levels, in women of child-bearing age.

The amendments that will be made by the instrument specify that mandatory flour fortification will take place by requiring that non-wholemeal wheat flour be fortified with folic acid in the specified quantities. The instrument amends the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 in Scotland by introducing the mandatory requirement for non-wholemeal wheat flour to be fortified with folic acid, amending the required quantities of fortificants that are currently added to flour, introducing an exemption from the fortification requirements for small mills, and making other technical amendments.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 14 January 2025 and made no recommendations in relation to the instrument. No motion to annul has been lodged in relation to the instrument.

As no members wish to make comments, I propose that the committee does not make any recommendations in relation to the instrument. Do members agree?

Members indicated agreement.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Clare Haughey

That would be great. Thank you very much, cabinet secretary.

Carol Mochan is joining us online.