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The local authorities in Scotland are responsible for the 11 local government pension funds. There are formal accounting regulations which govern how local governments’ pension funds are accounted for.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 December 2021
Ultimately, it would leave some citizens without the full protection this measure seeks to provide.
Electoral Commission accountability
To improve the parliamentary accountability of the Electoral Commission, the Bill makes provision for a Strategy and Policy Statement that will set out guidance and principles, which...
The insertion of a specific reference to MSPs’ own staff in the standard of conduct on the treatment of others, allowing the Parliament “to hold Members to account for their behaviour towards their own staff in the same way as their behaviour towards anyone else.”viReport of the Joint Working Group on Sexual Harassment.
I hope that the planning process will take such figures into account. I thank the minister for his statement and his reference to plastic bags in particular.
More generally, the Government does not fully take into account the additional costs of delivering services to a small and older population that is dispersed over a number of islands.
I was coming on to that point, so that was a timely intervention from Patrick Harvie.I have made it clear that our final position on an LCM will take account of the UK Government’s response to those requests.
For example, one estimate might take into account only people working in specific sector companies, whereas other estimates might take into account people doing jobs in other companies that do not show up as part of the games sector or creative industries.