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“Scottish Housing Regulator Annual Performance Report and Accounts 2017/18” Agenda item 2 is consideration of the Scottish Housing Regulator’s annual report and accounts for 2017-18.
Is it fair to say that the Scottish Government’s estimate is entirely theoretical, as it takes no account of the programme’s management and administration, whereas the local authority estimate is based on the reality of current provision and therefore takes account of the administrative requirements?
BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17 Our main theme of business today is an evidence session with representatives from the BBC and BBC Scotland on the BBC annual report and accounts for 2016-17.
As a matter of practice, officials try to avoid and minimise laying an instrument late, but it is right that we should be held to account by the committee and explain what happened and why.
When the matter was raised with Chief Constable House, he quite rightly told us that he has to account for a budget and explain how people are doing things.
I will touch upon some of the past housing policy in Scotland, which I do not think has been taken into account. First, I would like to give an example from Aberdeen.
In those circumstances, the committees of the Parliament must be strong enough to be able to hold Government to account, and part of the process of post-legislative scrutiny is holding Government to account for its ideas.
The reason why I keep harping on about this issue is that, since the European Union was introduced, things have changed in Europe, but the EU has not taken that into account. That is an opportunity for us to explore.