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The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Annual Report
We now move into private session.11:36 Meeting continued in private until 11:48.
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Annual Report
If members have no comments on the draft annual report for this parliamentary year, which was submitted in advance of the meeting, I ask whether the committee is quite happy with its contents.Members indicated agreement.
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Autism Strategy
That concludes our questions. I thank the minister for her attendance this morning.I suspend the meeting to allow the minister and her officials to leave.11:35 Meeting suspended. 11:36 On resuming—
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Autism Strategy
We all want greater take-up of self-directed support but, as an MSP who sometimes has service users contact me to ask for assistance, I am struck by the fact that, particularly for autistic young adults who are at the more severe end of the spectrum, self-directed support is n...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Autism Strategy
Thank you. I invite questions from members.
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Autism Strategy
That is helpful to know, because that work is important. It is always positive to have opportunities for service users and their carers to engage. I sometimes get a sense that some people in the community feel excluded from the decision making. The issue is how we can be confi...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Autism Strategy
Thank you, minister. Can you provide a little bit more detail about the reference group and engagement with key stakeholders, which you touched on in your opening statement? When we were considering the Autism (Scotland) Bill, the committee heard from stakeholders that there w...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Autism Strategy
I reconvene the meeting. We move to the eighth agenda item, which is to hear an update on the Scottish Government’s autism strategy. As members will recall, this was a recommendation in the committee’s stage 1 report on the Autism (Scotland) Bill. Members will also recall the ...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
I suspend the meeting for a short comfort break and to allow the Minister for Public Health and Sport to join us.10:39 Meeting suspended. 10:50 On resuming—
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
In that case, are members content to make no recommendation on these instruments?Members indicated agreement.
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
If members have no other questions to raise or points to make, I ask whether the committee has any objection to a single question being put on the instruments.Members: No.
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
Are other committee members content for us to write to the minister with a copy of the Official Report, asking him to respond to the concerns that have been raised?Members indicated agreement.
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
The committee will now consider its final batch of subordinate legislation for this parliamentary session. No motions to annul have been lodged on these eight negative instruments and I invite members’ comments.
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Education Bill
Thank you, minister. As committee members have no questions for the minister, that concludes our evidence taking on the LCM.Agenda item 6 is our formal consideration of the LCM, on which the committee is required to report to the Parliament. Such a report would usually include...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Education Bill
Agenda item 5 is consideration of a legislative consent memorandum from the UK Government on its Education Bill. The LCM relates to the proposed abolition of the Young People’s Learning Agency in clause 62 of the bill.The minister has remained with us and the only new official...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
I suspend the meeting briefly to allow the minister’s officials to change over.10:30 Meeting suspended. 10:31 On resuming—
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
Agenda item 4 is consideration of the Edinburgh College of Art (Transfer) (Scotland) Order 2011 (SSI 2011/54). Members will note the paper from the clerk, which sets out the concerns that the Subordinate Legislation Committee highlighted and considers the minister’s answers to...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
The committee is required to report to Parliament on those affirmative instruments. Are members content to delegate authority to me to agree the text of the report with the clerks?Members indicated agreement.
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
That concludes questions to the minister and our evidence taking on the instruments.We move to agenda item 3, which is formal consideration of two affirmative instruments, the draft Fundable Bodies (University of the Highlands and Islands) Order 2011 and the draft Fundable Bod...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
The second agenda item is to take evidence on two affirmative instruments, which are the draft Fundable Bodies (University of the Highlands and Islands) Order 2011 and the draft Fundable Bodies (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Order 2011, and a negative instrument, which is t...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Broadcasting in Scotland
That concludes our questions to you. Thank you very much for your attendance today and for your general engagement with the committee over the parliamentary session.I suspend the meeting briefly to allow the minister to leave and the next minister to arrive.10:03 Meeting suspe...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Broadcasting in Scotland
You touched on the challenges to do with securing additional commissioning and greater production of programmes in Scotland and ensuring that Scotland has sufficient people with the right skills to undertake such work. During the past few years, there has been considerable uph...
The Convener Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Broadcasting in Scotland
Thank you. You will be aware that the committee has been taking evidence on the issue during the current parliamentary session. We have already had two evidence-taking sessions on broadcasting this year, both of which were pretty upbeat and positive about the future for broadc...
The Convener (Karen Whitefield) Lab Committee
09 Mar 2011
Broadcasting in Scotland
Good morning. I open the eighth meeting in 2011 of the Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee with a reminder that mobile phones and other electronic devices should be switched off for the duration of this morning’s meeting. We have received apologies from Elizabet...
Karen Whitefield (Airdrie and Shotts) (Lab) Lab Chamber
09 Mar 2011
“Teaching Scotland’s Future”
What steps will be taken to ensure that new entrants to the profession have high-level literacy and numeracy skills, and that those skills are regularly refreshed? Does the minister intend to introduce some form of diagnostic testing of literacy and numeracy, and if so, at wha...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
Thank you, cabinet secretary.Meeting closed at 13:02.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
That concludes consideration of agenda item 3. There are another six items on the agenda, but I will close the meeting in the hope that the cabinet secretary will be able to come to next week’s meeting. I hope that we will deal more speedily with the remaining subordinate legi...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
The committee is required to report to the Parliament on the order. It might be somewhat easier just to refer the Parliament to the Official Report. More seriously, do members agree to delegate to me the authority to agree the text of the report with the clerks?Members indicat...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
Everyone here has tried to exercise their function as a member of the committee to the best of their abilities. One reason that we discussed the issue at such length is that every one of us takes our responsibilities seriously. It weighs heavily on any politician’s mind if the...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
That concludes item 2 on our agenda.The next item is the committee’s formal consideration of the Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011. As members will know, technically we have up to 90 minutes to debate the motion. However, we do not have ...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
I am going to allow the cabinet secretary to come in at this point, because it is important that we get some clarity on this issue. I will then move to the debate. This was supposed to be a question-and-answer session, but we have deviated from that at points.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
My understanding is that if the committee is not in agreement today, we will have to vote on the motion. The Government will then have two options: to withdraw the order or to contact the Parliamentary Bureau to seek parliamentary time to allow further consideration of the mat...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
Are there any further questions or points of clarification?
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
The Government will have considered several options in reaching the conclusion that the order is the appropriate vehicle to make the changes. Margaret Smith suggested that there might be a third option, but you disagree, which is fine. Based on the advice that you got from the...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
Did I see Margaret Smith’s hand raised?
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
Before I invite the cabinet secretary to respond, I remind members that the session in which we are engaged just now involves questions and answers to the cabinet secretary. There will be an opportunity for members to make their debating points under the next agenda item. At t...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
Thank you for that, Mr Sullivan. Do members wish to ask further questions?
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
That would be helpful.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
The committee will have questions for you, but not necessarily about the intention behind the proposed change—which the majority of the committee probably agree with and indeed support, as we think that it will be a positive change. You will be aware that the Subordinate Legis...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Subordinate Legislation
The second item on the agenda is consideration of an affirmative instrument, the first of a number of Scottish statutory instruments on today’s agenda. I am pleased to welcome Michael Russell, the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, who is joined by David Ro...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
That ends stage 2 consideration of the bill. I thank the minister and her officials for attending the committee.I suspend the meeting for five minutes.11:52 Meeting suspended. 11:59 On resuming—
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 19, in the name of the minister, is grouped with amendments 25 to 28.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 13, in the name of the minister, is in a group on its own.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 55, in the name of Ken Macintosh, is in a group on its own.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 8, in the name of the minister, is grouped with amendments 9 to 12, 14, 15 and 20 to 24.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
I know that asking a minister such a question is unusual, but I did so because the amendments to amendment 7 are extensive.Amendment 7, as amended, agreed to.Amendments 49 to 54 moved—Elizabeth Smith—and agreed to.Section 5, as amended, agreed to.Section 6—Compliance reviews
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Does the minister wish to press or withdraw amendment 7?
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 6, in the name of the minister, is grouped with amendment 7.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
I am sorry. I am almost deaf with the cold, so I am struggling as well. I am not sure how loudly I am speaking.Amendment 5 moved—Fiona Hyslop.Amendments 5A and 5B moved—Elizabeth Smith—and agreed to.Amendment 5, as amended, agreed to.Amendments 45 to 47 moved—Elizabeth Smith—a...
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
I invite the minister to move amendment 5.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 4, in the name of the minister, is grouped with amendment 5.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 37, in the name of Elizabeth Smith, is in a group on its own.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 33, in the name of Elizabeth Smith, is grouped with amendments 3, 34 and 35.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
I am very glad to hear that.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
No other member has a comment to make, so I ask the minister whether she has anything further to add.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
You are jumping ahead of yourself.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 31, in the name of Ken Macintosh, is grouped with amendments 2, 2A, 36, 39, 43, 56, 16, 16A, 17, 17A, 18 and 58. I draw members’ attention to the pre-emption information that is also shown in the groupings.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Minister, do you wish to wind up?
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 1, in the name of the minister, is in a group on its own.
The Convener Lab Committee
02 Mar 2011
Public Records (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 29, in the name of Elizabeth Smith, is grouped with amendments 30, 32, 38, 40 to 42, 44, 5A, 5B, 45, 46 to 48, 7A to 7E, 49 to 54, 57 and 59. I draw members’ attention to the pre-emption information on the list of groupings.
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Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee 09 March 2011

09 Mar 2011 · S3 · Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee
Item of business
Annual Report
Whitefield, Karen Lab Airdrie and Shotts Watch on SPTV
We now move into private session.11:36 Meeting continued in private until 11:48.

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The Convener Lab
If members have no comments on the draft annual report for this parliamentary year, which was submitted in advance of the meeting, I ask whether the committe...
The Convener Lab
We now move into private session.11:36 Meeting continued in private until 11:48.