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Seòmar agus comataidhean

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee


Agenda: 14 August 2025

Thursday, 14 August 2025

7th Meeting, 2025

Start time: 09:30am
Location: T1.60-CR4 The Clerk Maxwell Room
Agenda items:

  1. Decision on taking business in private
  2. Consideration of continued petitions
  3. Consideration of new petitions
  4. Consideration of Evidence
  5. Work programme

Agenda published: Monday, 11 August 2025 04:50pm

Full agenda and available meeting papers


1. Decision on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private.


2. Consideration of continued petitions

The Committee will consider the following continued petitions—  

PE2018: Recognise the value of swimming pools and provide financial relief to help keep pools open. The Committee will take evidence from— 

John Lunn, Chief Executive, Scottish Swimming 

Derek McGown, Coach, East Kilbride Swimming Club 

Duncan Scott OBE, Olympic Athlete 

Abi Thomson, Young Volunteer Programme Champion  

and then from— 

Dianne Breen, Coached Programmes Manager, Sport Aberdeen 

Kirsty Doig, Director, The Darcey Sunshine Project 

Jillian Gibson, Policy Manager for Sport and Physical Activity, COSLA 

Ben Lamb, Chief Executive, West Lothian Leisure (Xcite) 

and then consider— 

PE1610: Upgrade the A75; 

PE1657: A77 upgrade; 

PE1916: Request a public inquiry into the management of the rest and be thankful project; 

PE1967: Protect Loch Lomond’s Atlantic oakwood shoreline by implementing the High road option for the A82 upgrade between Tarbet and Inverarnan; 

PE2132: Publish a timeline for the dualling of the A96 between Inverness and Nairn by Easter 2025; 

PE1911: Review of Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006 as it relates to post-mortems; 

PE1962: Stop motorhomes parking overnight out with formal campsites, caravan parks and Aires; 

PE2024: Create a national, public information programme to raise awareness of the impacts of steroids, selective androgen receptor modulators, and other performance enhancing drugs; 

PE2079: Introduce legislation to provide for exemptions in paying medical facility parking charges and to create a new classification of parking badge for care-givers; and 

PE2136: Make non-fatal strangulation a standalone criminal offence in Scotland. 


3. Consideration of new petitions

The Committee will consider the following new petitions—

PE2139: Automatic expulsion for children charged with committing a crime against another child; and 

PE2146: Allow the use of privately sourced donor eggs in NHS funded IVF treatment. 


4. Consideration of Evidence

The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 2. 


5. Work programme

The Committee will consider its work programme.


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