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I am grateful for the work that has been done by the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee on the interface between the local economic network and other agencies. The phase 1 report was first class. I hope that we can build on it.
(S1O-132) The Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning (Henry McLeish): On 1 July, the responsibility for direct funding of further education colleges passed to the new Scottish Further Education Funding Council.
The problem with DRT is that people think that it will solve all their problems on day 1, whereas such systems are like children—they grow up and gain capability the bigger and more sophisticated they get.
Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Our main item of business this afternoon is the stage 1 debate on motion S1M-2952, in the name of Jim Wallace, on the general principles of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill.
On that front, I have suggested that paragraph 7 of schedule 1 to the bill could include the words, "whatever its purpose or nature" after "visit" in line 30.