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Public finance duties
Section 15 of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000 (the 2000 Act) section 14 makes accountable officers personally answerable to Parliament for the exercise of their functions.
Scottish Labour strongly supports the Liberal Democrat motion, which rightly holds the Scottish Government to account over its failure to comply with its own law.
The form for the financials was a spread sheet which we had to get our chartered accountant to fill in, and he found it very difficult and time consuming to fill in as it used an arcane accounting system.