Education Committee, 01 Oct 2003
Meeting date: Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Education (School Meals) (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003/350)
Good morning and welcome to the fifth meeting of the Education Committee. I remind members that we are in public session and ask them to switch off their mobile phones and all bleeping instruments of one sort and another.
The first item on the agenda is consideration of the Education (School Meals) (Scotland) Regulations 2003. The item follows a debate in Parliament on the instrument and is about implementation. We were due to have an Executive official in attendance, but the lady in question is not very well this morning, so we do not have an official present. The instrument is subject to the negative procedure, so we will have to take positive steps if anyone formally objects to it. Does any member have any issues to raise on the regulations?
No.
The regulations are designed to make changes as a result of other changes that were made at Westminster to bring things into line with regard to tax credits of various sorts for free school meals. Is the committee agreed that the regulations should proceed and that we are not going to invoke any procedure to try to stop them?
Members indicated agreement.