Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee, 23 Feb 2000

Meeting date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000

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Petition

Item 5 on the agenda is a petition that has been referred to us by the Public Petitions Committee. It was submitted by Napier University Students Association and calls for the Scottish Parliament to adopt in full all 52 recommendations that were made in the Cubie report.

The Public Petitions Committee clerk has drawn to our attention the fact—which I am sure we all know—that Parliament has debated this issue.

More than once.

Indeed, more than once.

We should notify the students association that the parliamentary debate has taken place and that representations such as the one that it has made were raised in that debate. We should inform the association that the committee will soon examine student finance, particularly in relation to any legislation that might come forward and that it would be appropriate for us to reflect on the points raised in the petition at that time.