Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 30, 2018

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Instrument not subject to Parliamentary Procedure

Education (Listed Bodies) (Scotland) Order 2018 (SSI 2018/7)

Under agenda item 4, the committee has one instrument to consider that is not subject to any parliamentary procedure. The Scottish Government is required to make orders that list all United Kingdom bodies that are authorised to offer degree-level programmes for validation by a recognised body, as are the UK Government and the other devolved Administrations.

The Scottish Government has acknowledged that two of the bodies that are listed are not correctly described. “Mary Hare Grammer School”—note the incorrect spelling—and “St Philips’s Centre” should be described as limited companies: “Mary Hare” and “St Philip’s Centre Ltd”.

The Scottish Government has undertaken to amend the errors in the next amending instrument or, in other words, the next order that updates the list of bodies. The most recent amendment was made in 2009.

Does the committee agree to draw the order to the attention of the Parliament on the general reporting ground, as two of the bodies that are listed in part 1 of the schedule to the order are incorrectly described?

Members indicated agreement.

Does the committee also agree to recommend to the Scottish Government that the descriptions of the two bodies should be amended promptly, given that part 1 of the schedule to the order confirms those bodies that are authorised to provide courses in preparation for a degree?

Members indicated agreement.