Skills for Scotland strategy document sent back for rethink
Posted: 21 July 2008
The Scottish Parliament voted in May to revise its proposed skills strategy. MSPs backed a Labour motion calling on the Scottish Government to bring forward a revised skills strategy.
Members rejected by 47 votes to 71 with two abstentions a government amendment noting support from businesses and industry for their skills strategy. And they backed by 71 votes to 47 with two abstentions a Tory amendment which called for the revised strategy to contain details of how all pupils aged 14 and over would access high quality vocational education. But a Liberal Democrat amendment, expressing regret at the £16m start-up costs for skills body Skills Development Scotland while specific funding for skills for work courses was removed, was defeated by 57 votes to 63. In a confirmatory vote MSPs backed the Labour motion, as amended, by 70 votes to 47, with two abstentions.
Read the original Skills Strategy for Scotland document.