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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 6 July 2025
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Education, Children and Young People Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 8 December 2021

Stephen Kerr

I will ask the minister to confirm for the record that there is no risk at all attached to the change.

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Skills: Alignment with Business Needs

Meeting date: 8 December 2021

Stephen Kerr

Our next item of business is evidence on skills: alignment with business needs. I welcome Leon Thompson, the executive director for Scotland at UK Hospitality, and Paul Mitchell, the head of employment affairs at the Scottish Building Federation.

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Skills: Alignment with Business Needs

Meeting date: 8 December 2021

Stephen Kerr

Would Leon Thompson like to go first?

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 8 December 2021

Stephen Kerr

Because it is being done in other parts of the United Kingdom.

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 8 December 2021

Stephen Kerr

The issues that Meghan Gallacher has raised are worthy of the airing that we have given them. It is hard to understand why it is felt necessary at this point to reduce the 10 years to five, given that there are already the flexibilities that were highlighted by Lynne McMinn in her response to the question that I asked about overturned convictions. Although it is true that a variety of convictions or behaviours can result in someone being on the barred list, those who are on the list have usually committed fairly serious indiscretions in relation to children or to vulnerable or protected adults.

I am commenting as an individual member of the committee, not as its convener. I think that I am allowed to make my opinions known without prejudicing my role as chair.

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Skills: Alignment with Business Needs

Meeting date: 8 December 2021

Stephen Kerr

And houses.

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 8 December 2021

Stephen Kerr

So, it is done in the name of the ministers.

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 8 December 2021

Stephen Kerr

We are putting on record the circumstances in which people’s names appear on the barred list. Other than in cases of the automatic listing that we have just heard about, what are the other circumstances that lead to people being on the list?

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Skills: Alignment with Business Needs

Meeting date: 8 December 2021

Stephen Kerr

I will ask the same questions to Paul Mitchell. I think I have the flavour of what you might say to those questions. Most of your members certainly pay more than £3 million a year in salaries and therefore also pay the apprenticeship levy.

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Skills: Alignment with Business Needs

Meeting date: 8 December 2021

Stephen Kerr

Leon, what would have to change in the way that the money is spent in Scotland for your members to begin to believe that they might be getting value for money? Give us the changes that you would like to see happen.

Leon, are you there?