§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when the EU Advisory Committee on the training in architecture is next due to meet; whether representatives of the Scottish Executive(a) have been and (b) are members of it; and if she will make a statement. [66455]
§ Mr. McNultyI have been asked to reply.
The next meeting of the Advisory Committee on Training and Education in the Field of Architecture (ACETA) has been scheduled provisionally for 20 November 2002. The date is still to be confirmed by the EU Commission. No representatives of the Scottish Executive (a) have been or (b) are members of it.
The mandate of this Committee is to help to ensure a comparably high standard of education and training for architects throughout the Community, and permit free movement of people and provision of services as Single Market objectives. It normally meets once a year.
The UK Delegation to the ACETA consists of one Government official from this Office (Building Regulations Division), the Chief Executive of the 999W Architects Registration Board, two representatives from the architectural profession, and two representatives from schools of architecture.