Recommendation 16

The Committee further notes suggestions that Health Improvement Scotland would be well placed to fulfil a data-gathering function as part of its enforcement of the Bill but that fulfilling such a role would require the commitment of additional resource. The Committee therefore calls on the Scottish Government, in responding to this report, to set out what additional data-gathering it anticipates taking place as part of the Bill’s implementation, who will be responsible for gathering this data and what, if any, additional resources will be made available to support data-gathering.