Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting Minutes
18th Meeting, 2023
- Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023
- Session: 6
- Location: TG.40-CR1 The Burns Room
- Meeting opened at: 09:30
- Meeting closed at: 11:28
- Published: Thursday, June 8, 2023 12:21pm
1 Subordinate legislation:
The heard evidence on SSI 2023/142: The Education (Fees and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 from—
Graeme Dey, Minister for Higher and Further Education; and Minister for Veterans and Nicola Nisbet, Head of Strategic Policy, SAAS, Scottish Government;
Magdalene Boyd, Solicitor, Scottish Government Legal Directorate.
The Committee considered SSI 2023/142: The Education (Fees and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 and agreed to make no recommendations.
2 Evidence Session (In Private):
The Committee considered the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 1.
3 Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill (In Private):
The Committee considered a draft report. Various changes were agreed to. The Committee agreed to delegate to the Convener responsibility for finalising the draft report for publication.
The Committee considered the arrangements for publication of the report. The Committee agreed, by division, that Members would not comment on the report during the embargo period, prior to publication. For 8 (Sue Webber, Ben MacPherson, Bob Doris, Pam Duncan-Glancy, Ross Greer, Bill Kidd, Ruth Maguire, Willie Rennie), Against 1 (Stephen Kerr), Abstentions 0.