This is all meetings of Criminal Justice Committee held in 2024. On meeting pages you can find agendas, meeting papers, minutes, and links to Official Reports and Scottish Parliament TV.

5th Meeting

10 October

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. European Charter of Local Self-Government (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill
3. Legacy paper
4. Work programme

4th Meeting

08 October

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Aggregates Tax and Devolved Taxes Administration (Scotland) Bill
3. Work programme

3rd Meeting

23 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Legacy paper
3. Mental Health (Scotland) Bill

2nd Meeting

19 September

1. International Human Rights Day 2016 (in private)
2. Mental Health (Scotland) Bill
3. Transition from Queen to King (In Private)

1st Meeting

28 August

This is all meetings of Criminal Justice Committee held in 2023. On meeting pages you can find agendas, meeting papers, minutes, and links to Official Reports and Scottish Parliament TV.

15th Meeting

17 May

1. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill

93rd Meeting

10 May

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure
3. Defective and Dangerous Buildings (Recovery of Expenses) (Scotland) Bill
4. Work programme

14th Meeting

10 May

1. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill

13th Meeting

03 May

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill (in private)
6. Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill

12th Meeting

26 April

1. Responses to the Committee’s pre-budget scrutiny of the 2023/24 Budget
2. Policing and mental health
3. Post-legislative scrutiny of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 (in private)

11th Meeting

19 April

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill
3. Access to court transcripts
4. Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill
5. Work programme (in private)

10th Meeting

29 March

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill
3. Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill
4. Post-legislative scrutiny of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018

9th Meeting

22 March

1. Joint meeting with the Health
2. Social Care and Sport Committee and Social Justice and Social Security Committee on reducing drug deaths in Scotland and tackling problem drug use

8th Meeting

08 March

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Post-legislative scrutiny review of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018
6. Post-legislative scrutiny review of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018

7th Meeting

01 March

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Scottish Mental Health Law Review
3. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Act 2022 Implementation Timetable
4. Scottish Mental Health Law Review
5. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)

6th Meeting

22 February

1. Transgender prisoners and Scottish prisons
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Priorities in the Justice Sector and an Action Plan
5. Policing and mental health
6. Virtual trials
7. Access to court transcripts
8. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)

5th Meeting

08 February

1. Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)
4. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (in private)

4th Meeting

01 February

1. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill
2. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)
3. Work programme (in private)

3rd Meeting

25 January

1. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill
2. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (in private)
3. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)

2nd Meeting

18 January

1. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill
2. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)

1st Meeting

11 January

1. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill
2. Public Order Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
3. Priorities in the Justice Sector and an Action Plan
4. Virtual trials and charges for court transcripts
5. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)

This is all meetings of Criminal Justice Committee held in 2022. On meeting pages you can find agendas, meeting papers, minutes, and links to Official Reports and Scottish Parliament TV.

33rd Meeting

21 December

1. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill
2. Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
3. Priorities in the Justice Sector and an Action Plan
4. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (in private)

32nd Meeting

14 December

1. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill
2. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)

31st Meeting

07 December

1. Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
2. Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
3. Policing and mental health
4. Correspondence
5. Pre-Budget Scrutiny (in private)

30th Meeting

24 November

1. Joint meeting with the Health
2. Social Care and Sport Committee and Social Justice and Social Security Committee on reducing drug deaths in Scotland and tackling problem drug use

29th Meeting

23 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill
6. Pre-Budget Scrutiny (in private)
7. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill

28th Meeting

09 November

1. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
2. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill
3. Correspondence
4. Pre-Budget Scrutiny (in private)
5. Work programme (in private)

27th Meeting

02 November

1. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
2. Correspondence
3. Pre-Budget Scrutiny (in private)
4. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)

26th Meeting

26 October

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
6. Correspondence
7. Pre-Budget Scrutiny

25th Meeting

05 October

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Correspondence
3. Policing and mental health

24th Meeting

21 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)
5. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill (in private)
6. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill

23rd Meeting

07 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Correspondence
4. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill
5. Pre-Budget Scrutiny

66th Meeting

09 July

22nd Meeting

30 June

1. Legacy paper

22nd Meeting

29 June

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill
4. Work programme (in private)

4th Meeting

27 June

1. Legacy paper

77th Meeting

24 June

1. Annual report
2. Public petitions
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
5. Work programme (in private)
6. Deer Management

21st Meeting

22 June

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Police numbers and the potential impact of new pension arrangements
3. Priorities in the Justice Sector and an Action Plan
4. Work programme (in private)

20th Meeting

14 June

1. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill

40th Meeting

09 June

1. Ball Green Inquiry
2. Budget Strategy 2020-21
3. Annual report
4. Section 22 report
5. Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill (in private)
6. Miners’ Strike (Pardons) (Scotland) Bill (in private)

19th Meeting

08 June

1. Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill
2. Online Safety Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
3. Online Safety Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Subordinate legislation

5th Meeting

06 June

1. Sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct
2. Non-Domestic Rates (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Bill
3. Consideration of a continued petition
4. Consideration of continued petitions
5. Public petitions: PE1661
6. Budget (Scotland) Bill
7. Subordinate legislation
8. Instruments subject to affirmative procedure
9. Consideration of evidence
10. Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland
11. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill
12. Work programme (in private)

2nd Meeting

02 June

1. Instruments subject to negative procedure
2. Early Learning and Child care
3. Deer Management
4. Mandatory Committees’ remits
5. Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill (in private)
6. Consideration of new petitions
7. Consideration of a continued petition
8. Consideration of continued petitions
9. Instruments subject to negative procedure
10. Instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure
11. Subordinate legislation
12. Subordinate legislation
13. Coronavirus (Discretionary Compensation for Self-isolation) (Scotland) Bill
14. Legacy paper
15. Prison Reform
16. Choice of Deputy Convener
17. Work programme (in private)

18th Meeting

01 June

1. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation

17th Meeting

25 May

1. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill

16th Meeting

18 May

1. Policing and mental health
2. Tackling online child abuse, grooming and exploitation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Proposed Bail and Release from Custody Bill
5. Work programme (in private)

15th Meeting

27 April

1. Final report of the Misogyny and Criminal Justice in Scotland Working Group
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill (in private)

14th Meeting

20 April

1. Priorities in the justice sector and an Action Plan
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill (in private)

13th Meeting

30 March

1. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill
2. Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill (in private)
3. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill (in private)

12th Meeting

23 March

1. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill
2. Review of evidence (in private)
3. Work programme (in private)
4. Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill (in private)

11th Meeting

21 March

1. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill
2. Review of evidence (in private)

10th Meeting

16 March

1. Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Review of evidence (in private)
4. Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill (in private)

9th Meeting

09 March

1. Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Risk assessment in the justice system
4. Review of evidence (in private)

8th Meeting

02 March

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill
5. Review of evidence (in private)

76th Meeting

11 February

1. Coronavirus (Discretionary Compensation for Self-isolation) (Scotland) Bill
2. Destitution, asylum and insecure immigration status in Scotland - witness expenses

1st Meeting

08 February

1. Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill
2. Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill
3. Annual report
4. Section 22 report
5. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
6. European Union briefing
7. Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill
8. Music Tuition in Schools
9. # Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
10. Declaration of interests
11. Audit Scotland Annual Report and Accounts for the year to 31 March # and Auditor’s Report on the Accounts
12. Audit Scotland’s provisional budget estimate for #
13. Cross-Party Groups
14. Ball Green Inquiry - witness expenses
15. Work programme
16. Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill - witness expenses
17. Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill
18. Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill - witness expenses
19. Consideration of continued petitions
20. Subordinate legislation
21. Subordinate legislation

4th Meeting

01 February

1. Joint meeting with the Health
2. Social Care and Sport Committee and Social Justice and Social Security Committee on reducing drug deaths in Scotland and tackling problem drug use

3rd Meeting

26 January

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Public petitions
3. Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
4. Work programme

2nd Meeting

19 January

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Scottish Government response to the Committee’s pre-budget report
3. Work programme (in private)

83rd Meeting

13 January

1. Brussels Bulletin
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Scottish Government responses
4. Public petitions

82nd Meeting

12 January

1. Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Instruments subject to affirmative procedure
4. Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill - witness expenses (in private)
5. Work programme (in private)

81st Meeting

10 January

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Legacy paper
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Work programme (in private)

80th Meeting

03 January

1. Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill
2. Legacy paper
3. Consideration of new petitions

This is all meetings of Criminal Justice Committee held in 2021. On meeting pages you can find agendas, meeting papers, minutes, and links to Official Reports and Scottish Parliament TV.

15th Meeting

22 December

1. What now for the prosecution of violence against women and girls?
2. What now for the prosecution of violence against women and girls? (in private)

73rd Meeting

22 December

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
3. Public petitions: PE1658
4. Section 22 report
5. Work programme (in private)

72nd Meeting

21 December

1. Legacy paper
2. Free Graeme Gofar
3. Instruments subject to negative procedure
4. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
5. Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill

71st Meeting

20 December

1. Subordinate legislation
2. Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill
3. Heating Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
4. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
5. Roundtable evidence sessions

14th Meeting

15 December

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. What now for the prosecution of violence against women and girls?
3. Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and Judicial Review and Courts Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
4. Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and Judicial Review and Courts Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
5. What now for the prosecution of violence against women and girls?
6. Roundtable evidence sessions (in private)

13th Meeting

08 December

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. What now for the prosecution of violence against women and girls?
3. What now for the prosecution of violence against women and girls?
4. Roundtable evidence sessions (in private)

12th Meeting

01 December

1. Roundtable evidence sessions (in private)
2. Work programme (in private)

11th Meeting

17 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
3. Roundtable evidence sessions

10th Meeting

10 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
3. Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010
4. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
5. Work programme

9th Meeting

03 November

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
3. Pre-Budget Scrutiny

8th Meeting

27 October

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. The misuse of drugs and the criminal justice system
3. Work programme
4. The misuse of drugs and the criminal justice system

7th Meeting

06 October

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
3. Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
4. Work programme
5. Pre-Budget Scrutiny

6th Meeting

29 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Legal aid
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Post-legislative scrutiny - Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010
6. Legal aid

5th Meeting

22 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Priorities for domestic abuse, gendered-violence and sexual offences in session 6
3. Victims’ rights and victim support
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Evidence Sessions

4th Meeting

15 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. Subordinate legislation
3. Subordinate legislation
4. Prisons and prison policy
5. Reducing youth offending, offering community justice solutions and alternatives to custody
6. Evidence Sessions

3rd Meeting

08 September

1. Decision on taking business in private
2. COVID and the justice sector
3. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
4. COVID and the justice sector

2nd Meeting

01 September

1. Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
2. Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (UK Parliament legislation)
3. Scottish Government priorities for the criminal justice remit in session 6
4. Subordinate legislation
5. Pre-Budget Scrutiny
6. Decision on taking business in private
7. Scottish Government priorities for the criminal justice remit in session 6

1st Meeting

22 June

1. Declaration of interests
2. Choice of Convener
3. Choice of Deputy Convener
4. Decision on taking business in private and Work programme