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Is the committee satisfied with the reasons provided by the Scottish Government for its failure to comply with the laying requirements? Members indicated agreement.
In the case of Fuel Change, while a college subsidiary was created (“Fuel Change Ltd”), it lay dormant and never traded, and the project continued to be managed by the College.
The lead committee is also required to report on the Financial Memorandum and Policy Memorandum, which accompany the Bill.
This report lays out the conclusions of our consideration of the Bill at Stage 1.
The Scottish Government would be required to review the operation of the legislation within five years and lay a report before the Scottish Parliament within six months of the end of the review period.
It sets out its functions; requires the establishment of a Strategic Advisory Council (“the SAC”); provides for QS to prepare and publish a learner charter and a teacher and practitioner charter; requires it to publish a corporate plan, annual report and accounts. Schedule 1 makes further administrative provisions about QS.
The Committee welcomes the Government's undertaking to lay a further instrument to correct the errors timeously for these Regulations to come into force on 28 June 2019.
The Cabinet Secretary argued that having a provision in the bill to require the production of a Forestry Strategy would increase accountability and transparency. He stated that the process to consult and lay a document before the Parliament was a well-established and, in his view, the correct approach.