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This necessitates taking the time required to guarantee a fair, open and transparent appointment process, in line with the Public Appointments Commissioner for Scotland’s Code of Practice. S4W-08299
The Scottish Government recognises the benefits of microchipping in helping to re-unite dogs with owners where dogs have been lost or stolen, which is why it is recommended as best practice in the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs (published in 2010).
For somebody who is somewhat ignorant of the system, does a code of conduct exist for those who carry out external audits—for the relationship between external and internal auditors?
Community groups can prove that they have paid for something because they have a receipt—often, a person has gone to a shop and has the till receipt, which will be the evidence—but the ERDF needs disbursement to be proved.
Many of the small businesses that we spoke to said that they would be prepared to pay something towards the local services that they were, in effect, in receipt of, but we did not get to the point of determining the level that people would be comfortable paying.
Is any work being done to quantify the value of bursary provision in Scotland and the number of people in receipt of full or partial bursaries? We looked at that when we did the reviews of all the schools.
However, we need to bear in mind that, because of the way that our internal convergence has operated, many people in the cohort that we are talking about are in receipt of additional basic payments. The total picture is a bit more complicated than just the LFASS replacement or an additional compensation arrangement to ensure that those people are adequately...
Similarly, the block grant that we use towards expenditure will take into account certain economic and tax-receipt factors that have been generated by the Office for Budget Responsibility’s assessment.