The next item of business is consideration of motion S1M-2884, on the financial resolution in respect of the Scottish Qualifications Authority Bill.
Motion moved,
That the Parliament, for the purposes of any Act of the Scottish Parliament resulting from the Scottish Qualifications Authority Bill, agrees to the following expenditure out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund—
(a) expenditure of the Scottish Ministers in consequence of the Act; and
(b) increases attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of that Fund under any other enactment.—[Peter Peacock.]