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Might there be an opportunity to review the situation before we break for the summer recess, to take account of any developments that may happen over the next few weeks?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 January 2015
As you know, at the moment, the formula takes into account economic need. A formula can only ever take into account information that is available to it, which means that the matter that you refer to will always be an issue.
In addition, a white paper account is published each year. Audited by Audit Scotland, it sets out the key assumptions that we made and how they compare with the outturns.
What does that accountability look like? Accountability for business gateway will come through measurement of the service’s performance, which means that we will have to feed in reports to the national unit to demonstrate that targets are being met.