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The 2022/23 audit of the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts
The annual section 22 report on the audit of the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts stated that the Scottish Government responded quickly to the financial pressures of 2022/23 by initiating Emergency Budget Reviews, which enabled the Scottish ...
Introduction
This report considers the challenges for committees scrutinising broad social justice policies, and how they can harness relevant frameworks and other committees' expertise to improve accountability.
The Parliament agreed on the 15 June 2021 to establish the Social Justice and Social Security Committee.
To be an Advisory Committee to the United Kingdom Blood Transfusion Services, normally by reporting to the Medical Directors of the individual Services who are themselves individually accountable to the Chief Executives and Directors of the Services.
Introduction
Section 11(9) of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000 requires that Audit Scotland prepares proposals for its use of resources and expenditure and sends these proposals to the Scottish Commission for Public Audit (“the Commission”).
Committee reports
Date published:
17 September 2020
The Committee noted that the power is expressed as allowing Scottish Minsters to “substitute for the amount of the application fee such other amount as they think appropriate but only in order to take account of changes in the value of money.”
The Committee uses its Twitter account to share information on its public audit work and to draw attention to its calls for evidence relating to its post-legislative scrutiny work.
The forecast is also revised down (very slightly) to account for new taxpayer survey data.
The effect of the improved outlook for earnings outweighs the downward adjustment associated with the other two factors.
Nineteen of the businesses responding to the SRUC survey of the sector accounted for 90% of the workforce and workdays of all survey respondents (SRUC, 2018).
He argued that in holding a future government to account, it is important to ensure that there is an evidence-base informing the interim target that has been set.