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P ublic Audit Committee Fiona Duncan Independent Strategic Adviser to the Promise 12 November 2025 Dear Ms Duncan Improving care experience: Delivering The Promise As you may be aware, the Public Audit Committee took evidence from the Auditor General for Scotland and the Accounts Commission on the above joint report at its meeting on 5 November 2025.
As I understand it, the research study that the UK Government relies on for its position, and therefore by default, the Scottish Government’s position, does not involve, or take into account any Scottish health, social, cultural characteristics.
As part of the discussions, you and the Accountant of Court agreed it would be possible to provide a more specific estimate of the costs associated with the development of the new case management system, which would allow the register to be searchable by members of the public.
A number of the costs provided illustrate potential costs to parties of certain procedural steps in the progress of managing a judicial factory that involve the SCTS/ Accountant of Court and were based on figures supplied by the Law Society of Scotland.
On what evidence, via what process, @scotgov, did you decide JCVI’s conclusions are right for the people of Scotland? How do you account for other equally eminent people/ bodies in other countries concluding differently to JCVI?
It is important to me that any update to the Financial Memorandum takes full account of potential updates Scottish Ministers may make as a result of the evidence offered.