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The Robert Gordon University (Establishment) (Scotland) Order 2006<br />(SSI 2006/276)
I welcome everybody to the 18th meeting of the Enterprise and Culture Committee this year, which will be our final meeting before the summer recess.
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We have three pieces of subordinate legislation to deal with. They are all subject to the negative procedure. The first order, which relates to the Robert Gordon University, has been circulated. Are there any comments?
Convener, I may be getting the procedure entirely wrong, but do we not normally have the minister here for such items?
The minister was never coming for this item, because it deals with negative instruments.
Do we have Executive officials here?
Normally we do, but I think that there was a bit of an oversight on our part. To be fair, it was not the Executive's fault. If members have any questions, we can, of course, still put them to the Executive.
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Designation of Institutions of Higher Education (Scotland) Order 2006<br />(SSI 2006/279)
Are there any points on the order?
Education (Student Loans) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/316)
Are there any points on the regulations?
It is not of any great significance to the policy intention of the regulations, but I am curious to know how many students will be affected. Unless I missed it, no figure was given in the explanatory note. The number will not be high, because the regulations affect only students who commenced their studies before 1998.
Shall we write to the Executive to ask for that figure?
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The regulations are subject to the negative procedure, so we do not need to make any recommendation. Everybody happy?
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I should have said at the beginning that I have received an apology for absence from Michael Matheson. His wife had a wee boy on Thursday, called James, who weighed 8lb 8oz.
Ouch!
Our congratulations to Michael and Susan.
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