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We can broaden that out to look at how we set and use budgets for services. Accountability follows budgets. The accountability for delivering services typically rests with individual boards, but the delivery of longer-term outcomes requires multiple bits of accountability.
Section 42 further provides that when laying draft regulations before the Parliament for its approval, the Government also has to lay before the Parliament a statement explaining why it is seeking to push the expiry date back.
Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on reporting ground (j), in respect of the failure to lay the instrument in accordance with the laying requirements under the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, while noting that it is satisfied with the explanat...
The 2024/25 audit of the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts: The Committee will consider the evidence heard at agenda items 2 and 3 and agree any further action it wishes to take.
S5W-11698 Miles Briggs: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will take account of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights when it reviews mental health and incapacity legislation.
While the First Minister and Minister for Drugs Policy are rightly accountable at national level for drug-related deaths and harms, there is a need for clear lines of accountability at local level, with chief officers from the local Chief Officers Group ultimately assuming similar accountability locally.
While the First Minister and Minister for Drugs Policy are rightly accountable at national level for drug-related deaths and harms, there is a need for clear lines of accountability at local level, with chief officers from the local Chief Officers Group ultimately assuming similar accountability locally.
It is important to hold bodies to account—absolutely. Victims or survivors—if it is that type of inquiry—need to feel that the people concerned, if they are still in post, are held to account for the actions that they took.