This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The Interim Director of Performance Audit and Best Value set out how decisions of this nature are normally handled—
one would expect the accountable officer in Transport Scotland to share their thoughts, ideas, risks and concerns, and to make proposals to the Scottish ministers, on which ministers can reflect and make a formal decision.
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/finance-and-public-administration-committee/20220517_npf_sgengagementevent.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/finance-and-public-administration-committee/20220517_npf_sgengagementevent.pdf</a> [accessed 25 July 2022] Fife Council also considered that funding does not necessarily lead to better practice and better outcomes but they advocated less ring fencing of budgets and using an evidence base to inform new approaches and develop best...
Scotland’s universities are among the best in the world, undertaking cutting edge research that creates knowledge of immense social, economic and cultural value.
Rather than impose our own solution however, the Committee would like to invite you and your Committee to make an adjustment that would afford petitioners some leeway. Your Committee is best placed to decide the scope and parameters of such a compromise.
All that we can ever do at any one point with regard to any sector in our economy is to make our best estimate on the basis of our current understanding”.
We want to eradicate duplication and align public sector, private sector and other organisations to look at who is best suited to do the job. Let us not fall over each other; let us look at whatever else we should be investing in as a priority”.[17]
She said: “The strategic board does not have any input to the agencies’ operational plans, but we can review ...
Our aim for NHSScotland, as set out in our Healthcare Quality Strategy, is that it provides the best quality healthcare services to the people of Scotland through the delivery of person-centred, safe and effective care.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2010
Chief Officers should select from a range of dissemination options available to them, including the option of publication aimed at the general public, that best serves the public interest and the purpose of improving service delivery.