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Given that smoking disproportionately impacts on the most deprived households, and taking into account the health and financial cost to families, what more will the Scottish Government do to help people to quit smoking, enabling them to improve their health and financial circumstances?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 September 2019
This includes, but is not restricted to, working towards further consolidated accounts for Scotland. The Public Finance and Accountability Act 2000 requires consolidated public accounts to be audited before they can be laid and published.
On a related issue, the convener mentioned the recruitment of 20 professional accountants. What is the cost of employing those accountants, and what exactly are they doing?
The gap was where we failed to provide the grant systems for those small businesses—namely, bed and breakfasts and those without business bank accounts. We have now sought to fill that gap.
There is a very good reason why we need to take them into account, and they have not been taken into account in the Government’s response at the present time.
The petition calls on the Scottish Parliament to request the Scottish Government to conduct a fit-for-purpose review of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman.It is important to point out that the SPSO is directly accountable to the Parliament through the laying of annual reports and other reports.
We also need to consider the broader issue of ticket touting at other events, taking devolved and reserved powers into account. We strongly oppose ticket touting.
Obviously, a lot of the skills involved in operating chemical plants—accounting, human resources and so on—are all transferable, but they need to be supplemented with specific hydrogen generation and power management skills to deal with questions such as whether we take power from the grid when there is surplus electricity, whether we can actually modulate ...