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The cabinet secretary may be aware of research by accountancy firm Grant Thornton UK LLP that suggests that roughly only half of businesses have a net zero strategy, despite strong recognition among the business community of the value of strong environmental performance.
I have been contacted by wedding venues in the south of Scotland that have asked whether a specific route map out of Covid-19 can be created for the sector that takes account of the diverse nature of weddings and wedding venues.
We will work closely with COSLA and other partners to ensure that robust scrutiny and accountability mechanisms are in place through individual organisations, multiagency partnerships and national inspection arrangements.
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?
That all sounds good enough, but let us take just one of those examples—hydrogen. The strategy lays out the actions that the Government will take: “Identify barriers to hydrogen production development ...
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Date answered:
23 September 2008
This may include how rail powers, currently reserved to Westminster, might be dealt with if responsibility lay with the Scottish Parliament. All contributions to the National Conversation on this matter would be welcomed.
The SSI supports that approach by placing accounting requirements on local authorities to ensure that those accounts are published in a transparent and fair way.
Will the cabinet secretary confirm to Parliament that she is aware of some of the very strong criticism, including from some within her own party, that is being levelled at integration joint boards because the current structures are not at all clear in terms of the lines of accountability for decision making and the accompanying accountability?