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Members have a lot to contend with and get their heads round but, just so you are aware, I point out that the Scottish apprenticeship programme is the best-performing programme in the home nations by a distance.
I accept that there are aspects of the petitioners’ requests that may be best served by a fresh petition in the next session of Parliament, but how do we get to that point?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 August 2020
I would have thought that we could, if we have that as a starting point, certainly agree on some other issues around the nature of the strategic board and how collaboration can best work.
Stakeholder responses are available on the Committee’s website. Broadly, stakeholders welcomed the Integrated Authorisation Framework and the expansion of environmental regulation to new areas.
There are good reasons for this beyond the critically important driver of making the best use of the Parliament’s time – not least that the pace of change in the broader economy continues to increase, and our speed of response is greatly enhanced by the more rapid process open to make changes in secondary legislation.