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As the minister said, we must learn as we go. We are a new Parliament and this is a new committee. we will get further if we can agree on things through the memorandums and understandings.
The FIAG report recommended a specific structure for the relationship between the Accounts Commission, the new Auditor General for Scotland and the new body, Audit Scotland.
The Executive clearly says that the one-off set-up costs of a relocation should be assessed—that is, the costs that occur in the months following a move to a new location but which are not expected to recur.
I have a couple of questions about the suggested new model of competition and the new framework for the water industry, whereby domestic customers will be dealt with by Scottish Water and industry will be dealt with differently.
We appreciate the need for flexibility, particularly when the Executive is cutting new ground, but the Parliament should be in on such dramatic changes.
Everyone will lose the plot, given the amount of new information that will come out. People will not know whether the money is new money, replacement money or money that has been relabelled.
Towards the end of her letter, the Minister for Communities talks about the number of houses that will be built and the amount of new money that will be released to build new houses.
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Date answered:
22 August 2001