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However, the balancing factor is the possibility of undermining accountability. I am unapologetically in favour of the boards of organisations being accountable for performance.
The review would make recommendations and the local authority would be held accountable if it failed to take them into account, but there would be no decision-making power through that process.
Finally, in your closing remarks you made much of performance management accountability, and it is vital that the Parliament is able to hold you and health boards to account.
That support should be particularly tailored to smaller firms, given the fact that they, as the Federation of Small Businesses advises, account for 99.3 per cent of all private sector businesses.