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I thank Food Train for its Eat Well Age Well initiative, and for its tireless advocacy of rights-based policy making and better outcomes for older people in Scotland.
An Leas-phrìomh Mhinistear agus Ath - shlànachadh Cobhid Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery John Swinney MSP T: 0300 244 4000 E: [email protected] Richard Leonard Convenor Public Audit Committee Room T3.60 The Scottish Parliament EDINBURGH EH99 1SP By Email ___ 07 November 2022 Dear Convener, Replacement European Union funds – future audit and accountability arrangements th I write in response to your letter of 4 October in which you seek an update on what conversations the Scottish Government has had with Audit Scotland regarding its future role, including that of the Auditor General for Scotland, in the audit and accountability arrangements for replacement EU funding.
Our next meeting will be on 6 June, when we will take evidence from the Lord Advocate on the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill. 09:32 Meeting continued in private until 09:56.
A listening ear is offered to those with little hope, the broken, the fearful, the abused, those struggling with addiction and the lonely. To the people we serve and to us, that is important work.
When will John Swinney finally come clean and admit that he and his Government have utterly failed and that he has no plan to fix Scotland’s NHS? I welcome the acknowledgement in Mr Sarwar’s question of the significant impact of the Covid pandemic.
It failed to do so when the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee was looking at the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill; it failed to speak with For Women Scotland; and it is not listening still.
In doing so, I go back to what you said at stage 1 of the Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill and, indeed, what the committee convener said at that time, which is that we have to ensure value for money.