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I therefore do not think that the legislation blurs the lines of accountability at all. Care homes are accountable to the local partnerships for delivering the services for which the partnership may have provided them with funds.
Ensuring that IJBs are at the centre of emergency planning enables all the bodies that are accountable for community health and social care services to be appropriately represented.
Local health boards do not have democratic accountability. The great and the good are stuck on the boards and are quite often remote from the population.
In practice, all of that means that there will continue to be cases in which, taking account of all the relevant circumstances, the right thing to do is not to take proceedings or to discontinue them.
(S5O-01365) Transport poverty is not acceptable in Scotland, which is why we invest more than £1 billion annually in public and sustainable transport. We will take account of the Sustrans research in our current review of the national transport strategy.
Does he want to be on the UK domestic market side, which accounts for two-thirds of our domestic trade, or does he want to be on the European side, which accounts for 16 per cent of our exports?
The idea of a national roads service with no democratic accountability fills me with horror. The article further said that the plans were meant to be kept secret until after next year’s council elections.
In a public health crisis, it is important that people get politicians who stand up, take responsibility and are accountable, and that those politicians are joined by public health experts who add important information.