1.  This is the fourteenth proposed Legislative Competence Order (LCO) on which the Welsh Affairs Committee has reported. The full background is contained in Annex A to this Report.

2.  We considered:

• whether the proposed order fits appropriately into the current scheme of devolution on educational matters;
• the extent to which there is demand for legislation which might follow the adoption of the proposed Order;
• the parameters of and terminology used in the Order; and
• whether the Order is in the spirit and within the scope of the devolution settlement.

We did not consider questions that will be a matter for consultation when Measures are introduced for consideration by the Welsh Assembly. The process undertaken by the Committee is described in Annex B to this report, together with an outline of parallel scrutiny undertaken by Legislation Committee No.4 of the National Assembly for Wales.