Question reference: S5W-04670
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 11 November 2016
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Current status: Answered by Keith Brown on 29 November 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the boards of Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland and the Scottish Funding Council will be abolished as part of its enterprise and skills review.
Answer
There will be a new single, strategic Scotland-wide statutory board to co-ordinate the activities of SE and HIE, SDS and the SFC, in order to bring greater integration and focus to the delivery of our enterprise and skills support. This will focus on fully aligning and coordinating activity across the agencies to maximise their collective impact.
Our intention is that, once established, this overarching board will assume the key functions and roles of the existing agency boards whilst each of the bodies will remain in its own right. Consideration of how board functions will be distributed between levels, and what supporting infrastructure will be required to support the operation of the new board and of the existing bodies will be taken forward during phase two of the review. Existing boards will be fully involved in this, and will continue to perform their current roles during the transition process to the new arrangements.