Petitioner Tina McGeever will lead Time for Reflection in the Parliament Chamber on Wednesday 22 September. TfR is the slot each Wednesday before the commencement of business in the Chamber when an invited speaker addresses a meeting of the Parliament for up to 4 minutes. Tina as you know has been campaigning to improve the system for accessing cancer treatment drugs on the NHS and has successfully brought about many important improvements in the systems and procedures use by health boards across Scotland. Her petition goes back before the PPC in November for an update from the Scottish Government on the roll out of guidance to health boards earlier this year.
You can watch TfR live, 2.30 pm, via Holyrood TV.
Well done Tina. Well deserved!
Tuesday 21 September 2010
Thursday 21 January 2010
We are still here
3 weeks into 2010 and this only the second post. "Shocking" as the judge in the brilliant Boston Legal would say!
Anyway, we haven't been sitting around doing zilch. We have next Tuesday's meeting when the committee will consider 6 new petitions. What, just 6! Yes, but it will be hearing oral presentations on 4 of these:
PE1307: Male victims of domestric abuse/violence
PE1303: Access to justice
PE1304: Safeguarding funding of charities
PE1305: Extension of the bowel cancer screening programme
The other two petitions are:
PE1301: Investigation of complaints against police
PE1306: Local public petitioning processes
Usual format, meeting starts at 2.00 pm on Tuesday in CR2 if you want to watch online via Holyrood TV. Papers are available via committee's webpage.
We are also busy preparing for a muckle meeting on 9 February when the committee will consider around 45 current petitions. Michty me! We are busy pulling everything together for this meeting as obviously we are dealing with twice the number of petitions the committee normally considers at a meeting. To give members more time to read the papers, we will be issuing end of next week.
Also finalising a few things which the committee hopes to announce in first week of February including a couple of innovative new IT based features. "Tell me more, tell me more" (as sung in 'Summer Nights'). Sorry, you will have to watch this space. We will be linking the announcement into the blog so you wont miss out.
Off for second gallon of coffee!
Fergus, Clerk to the PPC
Anyway, we haven't been sitting around doing zilch. We have next Tuesday's meeting when the committee will consider 6 new petitions. What, just 6! Yes, but it will be hearing oral presentations on 4 of these:
PE1307: Male victims of domestric abuse/violence
PE1303: Access to justice
PE1304: Safeguarding funding of charities
PE1305: Extension of the bowel cancer screening programme
The other two petitions are:
PE1301: Investigation of complaints against police
PE1306: Local public petitioning processes
Usual format, meeting starts at 2.00 pm on Tuesday in CR2 if you want to watch online via Holyrood TV. Papers are available via committee's webpage.
We are also busy preparing for a muckle meeting on 9 February when the committee will consider around 45 current petitions. Michty me! We are busy pulling everything together for this meeting as obviously we are dealing with twice the number of petitions the committee normally considers at a meeting. To give members more time to read the papers, we will be issuing end of next week.
Also finalising a few things which the committee hopes to announce in first week of February including a couple of innovative new IT based features. "Tell me more, tell me more" (as sung in 'Summer Nights'). Sorry, you will have to watch this space. We will be linking the announcement into the blog so you wont miss out.
Off for second gallon of coffee!
Fergus, Clerk to the PPC
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Alness meeting good to go
Arrangements are being finalised for next Monday's Committee meeting in Alness Academy. The agenda and papers went out yesteday
www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/petitions/meetings.htm
and the Committee's news release this morning
www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-comm-09/cpp09-s3-007.htm
The Committee is really looking forward to this meeting, more so with an expected big turnout from local schools. A big well done to the teachers and pupils for wanting to come along - hope you won't be disappointed!
We all travel up on Sunday and stay locally overnight then off to the Academy on Monday morning for the meeting start at 9.45 am. Education outreach staff from the Parliament are up there already doing work with local primary and secondary schools
www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/index.htm
For those coming along on Monday, look forward to seeing you all there.
Fergus
www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/petitions/meetings.htm
and the Committee's news release this morning
www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-comm-09/cpp09-s3-007.htm
The Committee is really looking forward to this meeting, more so with an expected big turnout from local schools. A big well done to the teachers and pupils for wanting to come along - hope you won't be disappointed!
We all travel up on Sunday and stay locally overnight then off to the Academy on Monday morning for the meeting start at 9.45 am. Education outreach staff from the Parliament are up there already doing work with local primary and secondary schools
www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/index.htm
For those coming along on Monday, look forward to seeing you all there.
Fergus
Monday 7 September 2009
Back to it!
Well, first committee meeting this afternoon after summer recess. Usual bumper agenda. Hope I can remember what it is I do after no meetings for 10 weeks!
You can watch live via Holyrood TV. Committee room 1 at 2.00 pm
http://www.holyrood.tv/committee.asp
Will post a wee update after the meeting.
Fergus, Clerk to PPC
You can watch live via Holyrood TV. Committee room 1 at 2.00 pm
http://www.holyrood.tv/committee.asp
Will post a wee update after the meeting.
Fergus, Clerk to PPC
Petitions debate in Parliament
This Wednesday (9th), there will be a debate in the Parliament Chamber on the report of the Committee's petitions inquiry report. This will run from 2.05-3.30 pm. You can watch the debate live via Holyrood TV
http://www.holyrood.tv/index.asp
or watch the archive via this link
http://www.holyrood.tv/library.asp?iPid=3§ion=31&title=General+Debates
This will be an opportunity for the full Parliament to discuss some of the issues raised in the Committee's petitions inquiry report. Hope you can tune in.
Fergus
http://www.holyrood.tv/index.asp
or watch the archive via this link
http://www.holyrood.tv/library.asp?iPid=3§ion=31&title=General+Debates
This will be an opportunity for the full Parliament to discuss some of the issues raised in the Committee's petitions inquiry report. Hope you can tune in.
Fergus
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