Finance Committee, 16 Sep 2008
Meeting date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Official Report
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Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Item 3 is to decide what level of scrutiny to apply to the financial memorandum to the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Bill.
On Friday, members received correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, which states that the Scottish Government wishes to revise the estimated costs of the bill. However, I do not think that that makes any difference to the paper's recommendation that we adopt level 2 scrutiny of the financial memorandum, which will involve seeking written evidence from the 14 territorial health boards and then taking oral evidence from Scottish Government officials. Do members agree that we should do that?
Members indicated agreement.
I wonder whether it would be appropriate also to seek evidence from electoral registration officers, who are mentioned in the cabinet secretary's letter.
Is it agreed that we should ask them for written submissions?
Members indicated agreement.