Public Audit Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, December 9, 2015

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Major Capital Projects (Update)

Agenda item 3 is consideration of responses from the Scottish Government and the Westminster Public Accounts Committee on the Scottish Government’s major capital projects for 2015, giving us a progress update. Colleagues may be aware that the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee expects shortly, as part of its draft budget scrutiny, to look at the potential impact of the ONS’s decision on major capital projects.

I welcome comments from colleagues on what further actions they propose that we take. We have the option to note the report.

I echo Mr Beattie’s comment that it is important for the committee to know the additional costs arising from the ONS’s delay—because it is the ONS that has held us up for a considerable period. The Scottish budget is still a limited budget and those costs have been imposed on us by Westminster. I think that we should seek some additional consequentials to cover the additional costs that are involved.

Does the committee agree that we should note the responses?

Members indicated agreement.