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The consultation also seeks views on how we can further augment the Parole Board's independence, including seeking views on the option of transferring the Parole Board to the Scottish Tribunals (as created by the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014).
As a result of the questionnaire, the Auditor General confirmed that the auditor of the health board included in its annual report for 2014 a clear statement about the retrospective transaction and the extent to which the board had relied on transfers from the endowment fund during 2014 “to balance its books”.
It stated that—
It is apparent from our work that throughout the period of 2012/13 to 2016/17 the Head of Finance (IT) communicated directly with the Finance Director of NHS Tayside and regularly took instructions from him in respect of the transfers of unspent budgets.2KPMG LLP. (2018, March 12).
The block grant is then adjusted to reflect the retention of some tax revenues in Scotland, and the transfer of new social security powers (see Figure 1).
If there is no English language version of the legislation then the legislation is not transferred into Scots law, though, other language versions can be used to help interpret the meaning of the direct EU legislation, for instance, by the courts.
There are also resources for Glasgow and Edinburgh councils to fund housing supply through the Transfer of Management of Development Funding (TMDF) arrangements.
Committee reports
Date published:
25 September 2017
Improvements in accessing data
COSLA’s written submission highlighted that resources previously available to local authorities for fraud prevention and investigation work had transferred to central UK government to form the Single Fraud Investigation Service.
This means that initially, EU powers will return to the UK but will not devolve further until there is agreement on transfer of powers. The UK Government has said that this will be a transitional arrangement to provide certainty after exit and to allow discussion and consultation with the devolved administrations on where lasting common frameworks are or a...