Enterprise and Culture Committee,
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Official Report
328KB pdf
Subordinate Legislation
Education (Student Fees and Support) Temporary Protection (Scotland) Amendment Regulations (SSI 2005/217)
As it is five past 2, I think that we should start.
I welcome everyone to the 11th meeting in 2005 of the Enterprise and Culture Committee. To begin with, I want to raise some housekeeping issues. First, I ask everyone to switch off their mobile phones. Secondly, we have received apologies from Susan Deacon, who will be late. Thirdly, I welcome to the meeting Wolfgang Michalski, who is our special adviser on our business growth inquiry and will participate in items 2 and 3.
Before I move on, I want on behalf of the whole committee to put on record our gratitude to Jim Wallace. In his period as Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, he has co-operated fully with the committee and has taken forward some of our recommendations, most recently with regard to the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill. As convener, I have had a very good working relationship with Mr Wallace and I am sure that the committee will join me in wishing him all the best for the future.
Hear, hear.
Item 1 is consideration of a piece of subordinate legislation. For this instrument that is subject to the negative procedure, we are joined by Kathleen Robertson and Valerie Sneddon from the Department of Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning, who will answer any questions that members might have.
Do members have any questions about or comments on the regulations?
I do not have anything to say, other than to point out that, as the cover note makes clear, the Subordinate Legislation Committee had no comment to make on the technicalities of the regulations.
I second that.
Given that this is a negative instrument, we do not need to make any recommendations as such. We just have to consider any issues that might arise, which is what we have duly done.