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Paragraph 5, as Brian indicated, says that"the Scottish Parliament must be properly consulted before any new direction is made or before an existing direction is revised substantially."
The order will mean a fee change that will apply to every institution in Scotland. In itself, that is not new. Scottish ministers have set new fee levels like this before, but these will apply only to English students.
The extent to which they are emphasised is more of a national—and, indeed, regional—issue.Some new guidance has just come out on geographical targeting.
Equally, we want to have a pot available that allows new projects to come along, that allows us to be innovative and that does not close things down for three years.
As members are aware, on 24 February we announced a new general duty on local authorities—when delivering services that are principally for children—to have regard to"the value of stable family life in a child's development."
It would be interesting to examine those issues during the year in order to establish that the Procedures Committee is not as dry as dust, but rather comes up with new ideas and new initiatives that could help the Parliament.