Contents
- Time for Reflection
- Motion of Condolence
- Presiding Officer’s Statement
- Topical Question Time
- Scotland’s Place in Europe
- Improving the Care Experience for Looked-after Children
- Higher Education and Research Bill
- Business Motion
- Decision Time
- Tackling Mesothelioma
Higher Education and Research Bill
The next item of business is consideration of legislative consent motion S5M-03181, in the name of John Swinney, on the Higher Education and Research Bill, which is United Kingdom legislation.
Motion moved,
That the Parliament agrees that the relevant amendments to the Higher Education and Research Bill, introduced in the House of Commons, relating to extending the power of the Office for Students (OfS) to make arrangements under clause 25 of the Bill so as to also include Scottish higher education providers where Scottish Ministers consent; to allow joint working with Research England (UKRI) and the OfS and the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council and clarify the Secretary of State’s powers to fund research, to ensure that they are as broad as the Research Councils, so far as these matters fall within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament or alter the executive power of Scottish Ministers, should be considered by the UK Parliament.—[John Swinney.]
The question on the motion will be put at decision time.