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The adjustments are necessary to ensure the budget is consistent with accounting requirements and with the final outturn that will be reported in our annual accounts.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 December 2019
The latest edition of the Carbon Account, covering the period from 1990-2017, is available on the Transport Scotland website at: https://www.transport.gov.scot/publication/carbon-account-for-transport-no-11-2019-edition/ .
Indeed.The committee might want to note that the Lord President’s private office has acknowledged the error and has undertaken to rectify the matter promptly by laying an amending instrument.Is the committee happy to report that and to note the Lord President’s proposed actions?
We will take evidence from the Auditor General for Scotland and the Accounts Commission for Scotland. I welcome John Baillie, chair of the Accounts Commission; Caroline Gardner, the Auditor General; and Antony Clark, assistant director of Audit Scotland.
That would probably require greater clarity on the rules about what the funding is being used for and, as was said, how that is then made accountable and auditable. The spatial level at which that accountability or auditing is then done has to take account of economies of sca...
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