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Transparency & Accountability
Details of the process and criteria the Scottish Government will use to decide the suitability of a potential manager to manage an asset should be set out in guidance.
Good Management in the Context of the Bill
The Committee considers there should be a definition of good management that takes the wider public objectives, including socio-economic and environmental considerations, into account to guide managers of Scottish Crown Estate assets.
Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2017
The move towards ‘bundling’ of health budget lines and delegation to local bodies, although motivated by a desire to increase local accountability, has acted to reduce transparency at a national level.
I therefore find it really worrying that there is a proposal to increase the fiscal burden on farmers, which there may be a perfectly good case for, without the potential impact on the community having been taken into account. I wanted to lay that on the table—your comments on it will be welcome.
The combinations of stick, carrot and love affair that you use depend on the issue at hand, so cases differ very much and are very context dependent. As an accountant, I assume that everybody other than accountants or economists is irrational.
You mentioned the difference between lawyers and accountants; the partnership SDLT rules are perhaps often not well known to accountants but they are encountered by lawyers and they do not work well in practice for everyday, regular partnerships.
The UK Government is going to undertake an impact assessment for the regulations, which I hope will take account of concerns that the industry has raised.
Ministers have achieved the desired policy outcome by laying a laid-only commencement order” and—if we get this issue cleared up—either a negative or an affirmative procedure instrument.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 November 2021