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Regardless of our views on the industrial action, as parliamentarians and democrats who are accountable to the people of Scotland, we should surely all agree that to close the public gallery is wrong.
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Date answered:
30 November 2023
Glasgow City Council published its audited 2021-22 Annual Accounts on 20 April 2023. These accounts are available for inspection on its website: CHttpHandler.ashx (glasgow.gov.uk) S6W-22716
Amendments 31 and 36 will extend that provision to include the local authority partners who help us to deliver support. Amendment 32 will commit us to laying before Parliament a report on the consultation process for the preparation of the strategy, which must state how consultees’ views have been taken into account....
The instrument was laid before the Parliament on 21 February 2020 and came into force the next day, which does not comply with the requirement that at least 28 days should elapse between the laying of an instrument that is subject to the negative procedure and the coming into force of that instrument.
The standing orders require the committee to draw to the Parliament’s attention any failure to respect the 28-day laying requirement. The first instrument under item 5 is SSI 2019/84, which we considered under item 2.
That is not just good governance: it is essential accountability, and an accountability that was sorely missed in the case of Andrew Stoddart, who was a tenant farmer at Colstoun Mains in East Lothian for more than two decades.