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Procurement Scotland require commodity strategies to consider and balance a range of policy and best practice considerations to ensure maximum contribution to Scotland in terms of best value.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 December 2007
The establishment of the cross-sector procurement policy forum will enable best practice to be shared amongst public bodies and this includes best practice in respect of the part that social enterprises can play.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how NHS job matching panels, established under Agenda for Change, are monitored and audited to ensure best value. Spend on job matchingpanels is not audited centrally.
We introduced land reform and ended a thousand years of feudalism. We passed the best incapacity legislation in Europe and the best homelessness legislation in the world.
The 2014 act says that parents and families should be part of the decision-making process and guidance will ensure that best practice, which is always to work with families on information sharing, is followed.
This Government will continue to do what we consider to be in the best interests of Scotland, and the party that I lead will bring forward a manifesto for the coming election that will seek to win the trust of the people of Scotland on building an economy that is more prosperous and a society that is fairer.
However, although I find the whole conversation interesting, I have to say that I am no wiser about accountability than I was at the beginning. With the best will in the world, I think that one could be less clear about this.
Yes—although, without wishing to prejudge the matter in any way, I hope that the Government is considering ways in which it might effect a change. It seems to be untidy at best to leave the provisions lying in the current situation.