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There may be scope for Parliament to reflect on how PSBs, specifically as accountable officers, are scrutinised. We are accountable to the SPCB for this element of our performance (including performance against budget and efficiency), assessed against the Scottish Public Finance Manual.
I never sought a written authority in six and three quarter years as Accountable Officer during which I signed accounts for expenditure in excess of £14 billion.
Where an instrument is laid in draft but a drafting error has been identified, the Committee has to date tended to recommend that the instrument should be withdrawn and re-laid with the error corrected. If there is no time for re-laying, then there is the option of laying an amending instrument.
This approach will place responsibility on the Bureau, and ultimately the Parliament, when agreeing committee membership that takes gender representation into account.
This is slightly ahead of the upper range reported in the Audit Scotland s22 report on the 2022/23 SG Consolidated Accounts (£46m-£52m) published in November 2023, figures that do not take account of the timeline changes.
Instead, SIDS estimated annual capital removed from businesses by levies into BID accounts at £6.4 million. (e.g. VM&S Ltd., term 2, proposed £808,000 for their “Overheads” account.)
Consultation As set out in the Scottish Government’s response to the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee on this petition, the use of an online account was an option for the delivery of ELC and consulted on in 2017.
NDNA Childcare Passport The suggestion of an online account for parents was raised in the 2017- iv 2018 Blueprint Action Plan with action point 17 calling for a feasibility study to be carried out.
They supplement ministerial accountability to the public (via parliament) with organisational accountability (for the delivery of services) and stakeholder or citizen-based accountability (via consensus-driven processes or feedback on services).