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Under agenda item 4, the committee is asked to thank the session 6 Public Audit Committee for the work that it conducted over the past five years and for its legacy report. I thank that committee’s convener, Richard Leonard, and all the members who served on it. For now, I ask that we note the legacy report and agree to consider it more fully as part of our work programme discussions.
The legacy report is an important document that catalogues the work of our predecessor committee and highlights some of the challenges and opportunities for us over the next five years. I have read through the report and pulled out recommendations that I believe are important for our committee to follow up. These are: to use the option set out in the Scottish public finance manual to seek progress reports on the implementation of recommendations made in the committee’s own reports; to ensure that adequate data is gathered across the Government, so that this committee has the necessary tools to carry out its scrutiny work fully; to continue to examine how the Scottish Government manages its relationship with public bodies; and to look further into the effectiveness of the Government’s arrangements of the boards of public bodies.
I see that no member wishes to comment on the legacy report at this point, so I will now close the public part of this meeting and, as the committee agreed to do under item 3, we will move into private session to consider our work programme.
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Meeting continued in private until 09:36.