1. Decisions on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take items 5 and 6 in private.

2. Subordinate legislation

The Committee will take evidence on the Carer’s Assistance (Miscellaneous and Consequential Amendments, Revocation, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 from—

• Fiona Witchen
  Chair
  Scottish Commission on Social Security
• Michael Davidson
  Head of Social Security and Devolved Taxes
  Scottish Fiscal Commission
• Miriam Paterson
  Member
  Scottish Commission on Social Security

3. Subordinate legislation

Shirley-Anne Somerville (Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice) to move—S6M-18774—

That the Social Justice and Social Security Committee recommends that the Carer’s Assistance (Miscellaneous and Consequential Amendments, Revocation, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 [draft] be approved.

4. :Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill

The Committee will take evidence from—

• Professor Stuart Haszeldine
  Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage, School of Geosciences
  University of Edinburgh
• Professor Annelies Kusters
  Professor of Sociolinguistics
  Heriot-Watt University
• Dr Robert Adam
  Associate Professor in Languages and Intercultural Studies
  Heriot-Watt University

5. Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill

The Committee will consider the evidence heard under item 4.

6. Work programme

The Committee will consider its work programme.