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Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland Annual Report and Accounts 2017-18: The Committee will consider the evidence heard earlier in the meeting.
Proposed future business At its next meeting, on 23 January, the Committee will take evidence on the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman's annual report and accounts 2017-18 and will also consider subordinate legislation.
Although those were difficult decisions, the independent Accounts Commission confirmed, as I said in my previous answer to Pam Gosal, that the Scottish Government has provided a real-terms funding increase to local government in the past three years.
Does the Scottish Government consider that that is in line with good governance practice? One important thing in the Accounts Commission’s recent report was its assertion that no Scottish local authority was at risk of going bankrupt, as has happened down south.
The issue is not just access to bank accounts, but people’s inclination to have a bank account.To be realistic, it is also about profitability for organisations that provide basic bank accounts, and the lack of inclination among those organisations to provide such accounts.