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Food Standards Scotland already exists as an independent food regulator and has statutory objectives that cover the entire food chain. We are not accountable to ministers—we are directly accountable to the Scottish Parliament.
I would need to double-check the accounts. I think that there is a total of six members: two executive members—the chief executive and the director of finance, who is also the accountable officer—and four non-executive members, but I need to double-check the accounts.
There is a big emphasis on lived experience. I will give the example of an accountant. An accountant can have lived experience of accounts, but that does not make them a formally qualified accountant.
Note 19 to the accounts provides information on Contingent Assets and Liabilities in accordance with accounting standards (International Accounting Standard 37).
This quarter saw a significant decrease in the number of instruments being reported under reporting ground (j) – breaching of laying requirements, falling from 9 to 3.
Therefore, we welcome the ongoing feedback from local authorities and will take this into account in further work to develop more detailed proposals and secondary legislation.
The proposals are relatively limited, including a requirement on all charities to publish accounts in full and giving OSCR the power to issue directions which would require a charity to do a specified thing further engagement with The initial consultation closed in April 2019.