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To ask the Scottish Executive whether Audit Scotland is required to comply with the principles of Best Value. The duty of Best Value will be extended across the public sector by spring 2002, including Audit Scotland.
If we are to use current mechanisms, the best way forward is through recognising the college as a national centre of excellence, with integrated funding and taking into account its many functions.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that grants awarded from the Strategic Waste Fund represent best value for money. It will be for local authorities to ensure that expenditure of grant from the Strategic Waste Fund provides best value for money.
That work has been undertaken and the committee will consider the latest draft today.The committee also agreed to consult representatives of all the parties and groups in the Parliament, once it had discussed the draft.
A friend of mine who witnessed the latest fatality wrote:"The collision that occurred in that split second was horrendous and something that will stay with me for ever.