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Did you think to check at all that the information that you received was correct? The responsibility for that lay on the curriculum side, which had the dialogue with the funding council.
I have believed for a very long time that the ministerial question time is insufficient as a method of accountability. I believed that when I appointed ministers and was nervous about them being held accountable, and I believed it when I watched ministers being held accountable from the back benches.Ministerial question time is too easy for ministers.
With regard to local authorities, Fife Council has given written evidence on the impact of universal credit on its housing revenue account and on rent arrears. In the region of £1.5 million of additional arrears are on the housing revenue account in Fife.
I have previously set out to the committee my view that Scottish ministers should be responsible for the production of tax revenue forecasts and should be directly accountable to Parliament for those forecasts.