Scottish Parliament Business: Thursday 27 February 2020
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In Plenary
11:40am: Parliamentary Bureau Motions
11:40am: General Questions
12:00pm: First Minister's Questions
12:45pm: Members' Business — Tom Arthur: Scotland’s War Memorials
2:30pm: Parliamentary Bureau Motions
2:30pm: Portfolio Questions
Stage 1 Debate: Scottish Budget 2020-21
Business Motions
Parliamentary Bureau Motions
5:00pm: Decision Time
In Committee
Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee (8:30am, Adam Smith Room)
Section 22 report - The 2018/19 audit of the Scottish Police Authority
Witnesses: Lynn Brown, Interim Chief Executive, David Crichton, Vice Chair, and Susan Deacon, former Chair, Scottish Police Authority; Chief Constable Iain Livingstone QPM, and James Gray, Chief Financial Officer, Police Scotland;Paul Johnston, Director-General, Education, Communities and Justice, and Clare Hicks, Deputy Director Police Division, Scottish Government
Equalities and Human Rights Committee (9:00am, Mary Fairfax Somerville Room)
Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill
Witnesses: Fiona Blair, President, The Association of Registrars of Scotland; Rod Burns, Deputy Registrar General, National Records of Scotland; Fraser Sutherland, Chief Executive, Humanist Society Scotland; Ephraim Borowski, Director, Scottish Council of Jewish Communities; Tim Hopkins, Director, Equality Network; Kenny Stewart, Head of Policy, Equalities and Human Rights Commission Scotland and Elena Soper, Programmes Coordinator, YWCA Scotland - The Young Women's Movement
Social Security Committee (9:00am, David Livingstone Room)
Scottish Fiscal Commission
Witnesses: Dame Susan Rice, Chair, Professor David Ulph, Commissioner, Professor Alasdair Smith, Commissioner, Claire Murdoch, Head of Devolved Taxes and Social Security, and Claire Mellor, Senior Fiscal Analyst, Scottish Fiscal Commission
Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee (9:30am, Rober Burns Room)
Census (Scotland) Order 2020 (SSI 2020/draft)
Witnesses: Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture, and Scott Matheson, Senior Principal Legal Officer, Scottish Government;
Pete Whitehouse, Director of Statistical Services, National Records of Scotland
Fiona Hyslop (Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture) to move—
S5M-20742—That the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee recommends that the Census (Scotland) Order 2020 [draft] be approved
Public petitions: PE1721: The Committee will consider the following petition—
PE1721 by John Hanks, on behalf of Friends of Geilston, on National tourism strategy for Scotland and the role of the National Trust for Scotland
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee (10:00am, James Clerk Maxwell Room)
Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland
Witnesses: Caroline Anderson, Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland; Ian Bruce, Public Appointments Manager, and Martin Campbell, Director of Investigations and Solicitor to the Commissioner., Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland
