“Review of major capital projects in Scotland—How government works”
The committee has had a response from the Scottish Government on the report on the review of major capital projects. The committee clerks suggest that we ask for updates. We have pushed the issue quite far, but in a number of areas we can reasonably ask for an update on progress. If members are minded, we can request the updates that are suggested in the briefing note.
I am happy that the Government fully endorsed our comments about post-project evaluation, which is a common theme running through our meetings. I look forward to updates.
Do members have any other comments?
I am not clear about the procedures. We had the report from Audit Scotland, we commented on it, and we now have the responses from the Scottish Government, some of which are okay but a couple of which we—and the clerk—are not happy about. What happens now?
We can ask what progress has been made on a number of issues. It comes back to the issue that you identified. Audit Scotland produces a report, we comment on it, and then it goes back to the Government. There is no mechanism for us to do anything other than make the comments that we have made. We can reasonably ask what the Scottish Government has been doing in relation to a number of the issues that were identified, and we can return to the matter at that point.
Okay.
Meeting continued in private until 11:04.
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