To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22272 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, why the Scottish Funding Councils for Further and Higher Education alone have responsibility for holding information centrally on student complaints, grievances and academic appeals at further and higher education establishments; what plans it has to hold such information itself and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

The funding councils are not obliged to hold information centrally on student complaints, grievances and academic appeals. The Executive has no plans to hold such information centrally.