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I caveat that immediately by saying that such a policy would be subject to a consultation process—the results of which I do not for a minute want to pre-empt. From our discussions with the EARL team, we believe that that is the basis on which the project is currently proceeding.
I experienced that with my family and was like that with my father.The same thing must happen in pre-school education. We must make science fun and we must encourage children to be inquisitive.
Our concern is about the wide span that the single funding body will cover, which will range from high-level research to the part-time vocational and even pre-vocational education that is characteristic of the colleges.
I feel quite strongly that the absence of a TPRA makes people feel excluded from the planning system and that kind of media report is likely to deepen that pre-existing feeling of exclusion from the process.
Partnership working is supposed to extend both to schools and to pre-school facilities. However, in one instance, a nursery school that was located on the premises of a state primary school ended up having to fulfil higher requirements for structural matters than the primary school within whose building it sat.
Amendments S2M-1050.3 and S2M-1050.2 are pre-empted.The next question is, that S2M-1050, in the name of Fergus Ewing, on the abolition of the council tax, as amended, be agreed to.