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However, having noted the concerns that the DPLR Committee raised regarding the wording in paragraph 9, I am minded to take the Parliament’s views fully into account. I will revisit that section of the code with the working group that helped to develop it.
Subject to those questions, and taking into account the amendments that I have mentioned, I hope that the committee is now content with the charter and that it will be able to recommend that the Parliament should approve it.
Its establishment does not seem to indicate that the business gateway is being streamlined to take account of the committee’s concerns.09:45 Political input, which my colleague Chic Brodie mentioned, is another issue.
If reporting were public and to Parliament, you could use the standard political accountability mechanisms instead of creating a separate architecture.
Providing additional accountable-officer status for the chief constable would make the chief constable more accountable than is the case at the moment.
I am not aware that public bodies that are subject to parliamentary appointment process deliver such services; they are much more about accountability, part of which is about holding Parliament to account.
Those who return in the next session could do a lot worse than to look at some of the reactions and strategies that the convener chose to use to hold the Government to account and consider the legislation that came before the committee.Finally, I pay tribute to Daniel Johnson, whose determined and principled leadership has brought his member’s bill to its f...
However, that contrasts with the situation of service-based businesses, such as accountants, mortgage advisers, tradespeople, childcare providers and professional services, which often operate on an appointments basis and rely less on passing trade.