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Chairmen's Committee
Record of Meeting
Date: 8th December 2015
Present | Deputy J.A.N. Le Fondré, President and Chairman, Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel Deputy L.M.C. Doublet , Vice-President and Chairman, Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel Deputy S.M. Brée, Chairman, Economic Affairs Scrutiny Panel Deputy R. Renouf , Chairman, Health and Social Security Scrutiny Panel Deputy A.D. Lewis , Chairman, Public Accounts Committee Deputy D. Johnson , Vice-Chairman, Environment, Housing and Technical Services Scrutiny Panel |
Apologies | Connétable A.S. Crowcroft , Chairman, Environment, Housing and Technical Services Scrutiny Panel |
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In attendance | Dr M. Egan, Greffier of the States designate Mr T. Oldham , Scrutiny Manager Mr S. Spottiswoode, Scrutiny Officer (Items 1-4) |
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| 1. Records of meetings The Committee approved the records of its meetings held on 6th and 11th November 2015, which were signed accordingly by the President. |
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11.11.15 Item 2 | 2. Activity Reports The Committee noted the Panel and Public Accounts Committee activity reports. |
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11.11.15 Item 3 | 3. Privileges and Procedures Committee: update The Committee considered a briefing paper on the deliberations of the above Committee. |
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11.11.15 Item 4 510/1(5) | 4. Code of Practice for engagement, for the purposes of Scrutiny, between elected Members conducting Scrutiny and Ministers and Assistant Ministers The Committee noted the Protocol between the Scott ish Parliament and the Scott ish Government in relation to the handling of Committee business', and received an updated draft of its own Code of Practice for engagement, for the purposes of Scrutiny, between elected Members conducting Scrutiny and Ministers and Assistant Ministers'. It recalled that in addition to this Code, it was responsible for the development of three further related Codes of Practice. The Committee considered whether having four separate Codes of Practice relating to the Scrutiny function/PAC was confusing, and agreed to clarify the situation by adopting the following terminology to provide a clearer distinction between the engagement' and the proceedings' documents: • Protocol for Engagement Between Scrutiny Panels and the |
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| Executive • Protocol for Engagement Between the PAC and the Executive • Scrutiny Proceedings: Code of Practice • PAC Proceedings: Code of Practice The Committee received further advice in consideration of the draft action points agreed at its previous meeting, in relation primarily to the powers of Scrutiny Panels and compliance with the draft Scrutiny Protocol. The following points of principle to steer future drafting of the Protocol and associated actions were agreed:
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11.11.15 Item 5 510/3(9) | 5. Use of social media The Committee noted that the States Greffe had begun work to establish a States Assembly' Facebook page during the first quarter of 2016. This would include content from Scrutiny Panels. | TO |
511/1(63) | 6. Domestic Property Transactions Review Panel The Committee agreed that scoping should be undertaken of a proposed Review Panel regarding domestic property transactions. This would be led by the proposer of the Review, the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. The Committee noted that matters of resources, membership and Chairmanship would also require further consideration, and might be informed by the scoping process. | AL |
| 7. Future Meetings It was noted that the Committee's next meeting date was 26th January 2016, 9.30am-11.30am, Le Capelain Room, States Building. |
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