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It states it will be health boards, commissioners and providers - that is organisations rather than individuals- who will be accountable.
Concerns were raised with us that there needs to be greater clarity on where accountability sits.
Can you explain the relevance of that point to this particular issue? Accountable officers—the permanent secretary is the principal accountable officer for the Scottish Administration—always have to have regard to a number of accountable officer tests in relation to anything that they do: the formal delegations that allow the Scottish Administration to spend money require those tests to be taken into account.
We have to bear it in mind that, not surprisingly, women account for the majority of college enrolments—they accounted for 51 per cent of enrolments in 2015-16.