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The order that the committee is considering today is necessary to tidy up the legislation to take account of the changes that were introduced by the 2011 act.As a result of those changes, the Electoral Commission’s accredited observers scheme, which is set out in sections 6A to 6D of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, now covers the ...
Like many others, when I read the report, I was a wee bit shocked that the highest figure for fraud, 4,403, is for blue badges for disabled people. Those cases account for almost half the results—9,279 cases.
The report supports the general thrust of the aims of the community empowerment (Scotland) bill but states that the committee is unclear about how the governance and accountability arrangements for CPPs will work in practice and how the partners will hold one another to account.
The Public Audit Committee, of which I am a member, has met visiting delegations of members from those countries’ Assemblies, which have been keen to establish some kind of link with us to talk about accountability, scrutiny and so on—about how to hold their own emerging Governments to account.