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We welcome calls through Relay UK and in BSL through Contact Scotland BSL. 5. Accountability Mechanisms - Are current oversight and accountability structures sufficient to ensure that disabled people’s rights are being upheld in practice?
What can a nationalised rail company do that the previous operator could not? The answer is accountability to ministers. The holder of the ScotRail franchise is now accountable directly to ministers, and ministers are accountable to the Parliament and to this committee.
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.
If a governance issue arises, we would expect the Accountable Officer (who may or may not be the Officeholder) to engage their own AAB and depending on the nature of the issue, report it to Audit Scotland and inform the SPCB.
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).
This section will empower local authorities to judicially review the decisions of Scottish Ministers – including secondary legislation – and we can certainly see how it would be used when local government feels that its freedom of action is being restricted.viiiWritten evidence
Asked to clarify whether he thought the main purpose of the Bill was to "send a message" or whether it marked a "significant constitutional change", Mr Wightman said he thought the answer lay...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2019
The Committee reports this instrument to the Justice Committee under the general reporting ground and calls on the Scottish Government to lay an amending instrument to rectify these errors.