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As part of our public services reform inquiry into developing new ways of delivering services and for any future consideration that we may give the forthcoming procurement reform bill, do we agree to write to COSLA’s European unit to seek further information on the potential impact of new EU public procurement rules ...
The amount of money to which you are prepared to expose the taxpayer is dependent on the number of new homes that you want to build—or the number of new homes that you want to build is dependent on the exposure to the taxpayer.
On that point, much of this is uncharted territory for us as parliamentarians. We might know that 26 common frameworks exist, but only four of them have been scrutinised by the Parliament, and eight have yet to be published.
Those are being implemented with on-going support from Health Protection Scotland.The new health care environment inspectorate, which was scheduled to visit NHS Tayside on 11 November as part of its programme of visits, visited yesterda...
Another wanted clear incentives and timelines for heat pump transitions (especially where a new boiler was installed recently) and worried that the people who most need help “will not be reached.”
Across the board, we are looking at issues around the new financial powers and how they change public services and create a new agenda, which is also partly to do with local government.