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I was not referring to who the accountable officer should be; I was asking whether you asked the Scottish Government for an accountable officer because, to use Stephen Boyle’s words, the accountable officer was out of the business for “an extended period”?
The Scottish Government and COSLA are operating a partnership approach to provide legal accountability—accountability is one of the issues that you touched on in your opening remarks, Donna.
This quarter saw a higher number of instruments being reported under reporting ground (j) (breaching of laying requirements). There were 7 compared with 5 in the previous quarter.
Achieving this remains challenging when existing public sector structures and systems of incentives and accountability remain siloed as was captured clearly in the recent Scottish Leaders Forum report into Accountability and Incentives. 20.