Public Health etc (Scotland) Bill (SP Bill 3) - Health and Sport Committee Page
Introduction
The Health and Sport Committee is the lead committee on the Public Health etc (Scotland) Bill.
The Bill was introduced to the Scottish Parliament on 25 October 2007.
The main purposes of the Bill are to-
- restate and amend the law on public health;
- make provision about mortuaries and the disposal of bodies;
- enable Scottish Ministers to impliment their obligations under the International Health Regulations;
- enable provision to be made in relation to the provision of information to users on the effects on health of sunbeds;
- to amend the law on statutory nuisances; and
- for connected purposes
Appointment of a Committee Advisor
The Health and Sport Committee appointed Dr John Curnow at its meeting on 12 December 2007 to advise the committee in relation to its scrutiny of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Bill.
Health and Sport Committee - Stage 1 Scrutiny
Written Evidence
A call for written evidence was issued by the Health and Sport Committee seeking views on the general principles of the Bill from all interested individuals and organisations. The deadline for responses is 18 January 2008.
Written submissions received by the Committee (all submissions are PDF)
PHB01 Professor James Ferguson, University of Dundee (20KB pdf)
PHB02 Dundee City Council (14KB pdf)
PHB03 Dr Elizabeth Benton, Dermatology Council for Scotland (26KB pdf)
PHB04 Cancer Research UK (57KB pdf)
PHB05 Highland Council (15KB pdf)
PHB06 NHS Borders (28KB pdf)
PHB07 North Lanarkshire Council (16KB pdf)
PHB08 Sunbed Association (17KB pdf)
PHB09 Professor Sheila McLean, University of Glasgow (15KB pdf)
PHB10 Scottish Council for Jewish Communities (20KB pdf)
PHB11 British Medical Association (80KB pdf)
PHB12 Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (45KB pdf)
PHB13 Lanarkshire NHS Board (31KB pdf)
PHB14 Gavin Strang MP (15KB pdf)
PHB15 Equality and Human Rights Commission (14KB pdf)
PHB16 Dr. Rob Carlson and Professor Kenneth Boyd, University of Edinburgh (54KB pdf)
PHB17 Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (15KB pdf)
PHB18 Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (36KB pdf)
PHB19 Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland (15KB pdf)
PHB20 Scottish Clinical Virlology Consultants Group (16KB pdf)
PHB21 Melanoma Support Group (45KB pdf)
PHB22 NHS Grampian (26KB pdf)
PHB23 Finance Committee, Scottish Parliament (152KB pdf)
PHB24 City of Edinburgh Council (28KB pdf)
PHB25 Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (17KB pdf)
PHB26 Law Society of Scotland (39KB pdf)
PHB27 Solicitors for the NHS Boards in Scotland (14KB pdf)
PHB28 Consultants in Public Health Medicine (32KB pdf)
PHB29 East Ayrshire Council (15KB pdf)
PHB30 Glasgow City Council (17KB pdf)
PHB31 Scottish Council on Human Bioethics (28KB pdf)
PHB32 Macmillan cancer Research (16KB pdf)
PHB33 NHS Highland (18KB pdf)
PHB34 The Academy of Royal Colleges and Faculties in Scotland (15KB pdf)
PHB35 Health Protection Scotland (43KB pdf)
PHB36 South Lanarkshire Council (19KB pdf)
PHB37 Royal College of General Practitioners (24KB pdf)
PHB38 Perth and Kinross Council (16KB pdf)
PHB39 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (30KB pdf)
PHB40 Scottish Borders Council (17KB pdf)
PHB41 COSLA (23KB pdf)
PHB42 General Medical Council (33KB pdf)
PHB43 Information Commissioners Office (40KB pdf)
PHB44 Consol Suncenter (35KB pdf)
PHB45 National Association of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (23KB pdf)
PHB46 British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (14KB pdf)
PHB47 Royal College of Nursing Scotland (24KB pdf)
PHB48 NHS Tayside Consultants and Specialist-Speciality Registrars in Public Health Medicine (18KB pdf)
PHB49 NHS National Services Scotland (64KB pdf)
PHB50 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents [ROSPA] (19KB pdf)
PHB51 Francis McManus, Napier University (16KB pdf)
PHB52 Scottish Interfaith Council (16KB pdf)
PHB53 HIV Scotland (24KB pdf)
Supplementary Evidence
04.02.2008 Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (16KB pdf)
06.02.2008 Scottish Government [Bill Team] (52KB pdf)
08.02.2008 Scottish Government [Director-General Health and Chief Executive NHS Scotland] (36KB pdf)
12.02.2008 Information Commissioners Office (24KB pdf)
14.02.2008 COSLA (20KB pdf)
28.02.2008 Minister for Health (40KB pdf)
10.03.2008 Minister of Health (516KB pdf)
06.05.2008 Sunbed Association (24KB pdf)
08.05.2008 Consol Suncenter plc (28KB pdf)
12.05.2008 British Medical Association (52KB pdf)
16.05.2008 Society of Chief Officers of Environmental Health in Scotland
19.05.2008 COSLA
20.05.2008 Scottish Retail Consortium
21.05.2008 Sunbed Association (32KB pdf)
21.05.2008 Consol Suncenter plc (20KB pdf)
21.05.2008 Law Society of Scotland (12KB pdf)
Oral Evidence Stage 1
19 September 2007
31 October 2007
9 January 2008
16 January 2008
30 January 2008
20 February 2008
Minutes
19 September 2007
31 October 2007
12 December 2007
9 January 2008
16 January 2008
30 January 2008
20 February 2008
5 March 2008
12 March 2008
Ministerial response to the Health and Sport Committee Stage 1 Report
14 April 2008 Shona Robison, Minister for Public Health (701KB)
Stage 1 Debate
Thursday 17 April 2008
Oral Evidence Stage 2
7 May 2008
14 May 2008
21 May 2008
Minutes
7 May 2008
14 May 2008
21 May 2008
Ministerial response to the Health and Sport Committee at Stage 2
8 June 2008 Shona Robison, Minister for Public Health (688KB)
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