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The remit of the Accounts Commission is set out in the commission’s April 2005 strategy document on its website at: http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/publications/pdf/2005/05cp02ac.rtf.The statutory functions of the commission have been amended and adjusted over time and are now:to secure the audit of all accounts of local authorities and associated bodies, either by employed staff of Audit Scotland or by firms of accountantsto secure the audit of the performance by local authorities of their Best Value and Community Planning dutiesto undertake or promote Best Value studies in local governmentto give directions to local authorities on performance informationto consider reports made by the Controller of Audit, to investigate all matters raised and to conduct hearings where appropriateto make recommendations to the Scottish Executive and to local authorities, and to impose sanctions on individual officers and members responsible for illegalityto advise the Scottish Executive on local authority accounting matters.The commission receives no financial support from the Scottish Executive.
The latest available information is set out in the following table. 2003-04 Force Number of Visibly Ethnic Officers Number of Visibly Ethnic Recruits Wastage of Visibly Ethnic Officers Promotion of Visibly Ethnic Officers Central Scotland 3 1 1 0 Dumfries and Gallowa...
Table 1 Manufacturing1 Employee Jobs, Scotland Year Employee Jobs Dec 1990 378,500 Dec 1991 354,400 Dec 1992 326,700 Dec 1993 320,100 Dec 1994 320,500 Dec 1995 321,100 Dec 1996 305,300 Dec 1997 335,100 ...
To ask the Scottish Executive how it reconciles the answer to question S1W-33063 by Mr Jim Wallace on 21 January 2003 with the answer to question S2W-16105 by Cathy Jamieson on 4 May 2005 in respect of how often the controller of HM Prison Kilmarnock has agreed that a cell may be shared by two prisoners under section 23.4.1 of the Minute of Agreement between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison Services Limited for the Design, Construction, Management and Financing of a Prison at Kilmarnock in each quarter of the prison's operation and in the current year to date and whether it will provide a revised answer to question S2W-16105.
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to encourage European institutes to establish headquarters in Scotland; which institutes it has tried to attract, and where it has encouraged them to locate.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken since the passing of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 to monitor clauses in PPP contracts that create a duty of confidentiality between the parties exempting information from being provided in answer to a request for it under section 36(2) of the act.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the quarterly baseline total was, as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule F to Minute of Agreement between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison Services Limited for the Design, Construction, Management and Financing of a Prison at Kilmarnock, in each quarter since the prison opened.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 April 2005
Children are referred to the Children’s Reporter on the basis of grounds contained within section 52 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, for example parental neglect, not on the factors which underlie the referral.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received, or made to the UK Government, regarding the impact of the introduction of the Gas Work Notification Scheme on the housing market and what studies the Executive has undertaken to determine the economic impact that the scheme will have on gas installation services and businesses in Scotland....
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 April 2005
Mr Graeme Pearson, Director of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland lead on serious organised crime, is the Scottish link at strategic level with Europol.