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Ensuring Scotland’s Skills System is Fit for the Future: Amendment 1

  • Submitted by: Murdo Fraser, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2023
  • Motion type: Amendment
  • Motion reference: S6M-10922.1
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 25 October 2023

As an amendment to motion S6M-10922 in the name of Daniel Johnson (Ensuring Scotland’s Skills System is Fit for the Future), after "skills shortages" insert "; supports the principle of parity of esteem for different learning routes, but regrets that there is considerable unmet demand for apprenticeship places due to the shortage of public funding available; believes that this should be addressed in the Scottish Government’s forthcoming Budget for 2024-25".


Related motion

Motion ref. S6M-10922

Ensuring Scotland’s Skills System is Fit for the Future

Submitted by: Daniel Johnson, Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Monday, October 23, 2023

Supported by: Paul Sweeney
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Result 65 for, 30 against, 22 abstained, 12 did not vote Agreed


Amendments

Motion ref. S6M-10922.2

Ensuring Scotland’s Skills System is Fit for the Future: Amendment 2: Amendment

Submitted by: Graeme Dey, Angus South, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Supported by: Natalie Don-Innes, Jenny Gilruth, Richard Lochhead, Evelyn Tweed
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Result 65 for, 52 against, 0 abstained, 12 did not vote Agreed