Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

Meeting date: Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Official Report 752KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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Nutritional Requirements for Food and Drink in Schools (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023 (SSI 2023/267)

Good morning, and welcome to the 27th meeting in 2023 of the Education, Children and Young People Committee. We have received apologies from Ben Macpherson and Ross Greer.

The main item on our agenda is an evidence session with the Minister for Children, Young People and Keeping the Promise on the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill, but the minister has been delayed. Are members content for us to consider agenda item 2 first?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 2, we will consider the Nutritional Requirements for Food and Drink in Schools (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023, which are being considered under the negative procedure.

The regulations revoke a previous amendment that was made to the Nutritional Requirements for Food and Drink in Schools (Scotland) Regulations 2020 during the pandemic. The amendment allowed, as a temporary measure, education authorities or grant-aided schools to provide food or drink that did not comply with the 2020 regulations when they were unable to procure a product, given the supply issues at the time.

The regulations also correct a calculation formula in the nutritional requirements to ensure that the nutrient requirement for school meals is calculated as intended by the 2020 regulations.

As members have no comments to make on the subordinate legislation, does the committee agree that it does not wish to make any recommendations in relation to the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

I suspend the meeting while we wait for the minister to arrive.

09:32 Meeting suspended.  

09:53 On resuming—