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He added, “it is surely up to the Minister who decides to determine whether the case has been made, if the campaign groups have made their best fist of it”.7Finance and Public Administration Committee. (2025, October 7).
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
Recommendation: The Committee asks the Scottish Government to confirm whether the review of the NPF will include consideration of a requirement for best value audits to include specific wellbeing and sustainable development assessments.
Officials added that “there will likely be some form of tracker” to monitor the have regard duty but that, “because it is a new approach, we are not entirely sure how that information will be provided and how it can be recorded, so we are keeping an open mind as to how best to be able to do that”. Officials confirmed that it will be “quite a task to track ...
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Committee reports
Date published:
18 December 2024
The Minister acknowledged stakeholder concerns but noted that the guidelines in the regulations reflect current best practice following additional guidance that was introduced in 2019.
Although he did not think that the inspectorate was necessarily the best place for the accreditation function to reside, Professor Muir thought it preferable to it staying in the qualifications body. 1Scottish Parliament. (2024, September 18).
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2024
When asked about the disparity between the Scottish Government and SFC’s assumptions regarding the extent of the public sector pay increases, the Minister stated that—
at the time when that budgeted number for pay was included, it was our best estimate of where that would land.
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2024
We therefore recommend that the next iteration of the NPF includes a set of indicators… agreed, between Scottish Government, local government and relevant sector representatives, to best track progress in delivering the outcomes."
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This year, we also received suggestions for how the Scottish Government could best support delivery of its priorities, including from Audit Scotland, who said the annual budget would benefit from an approach similar to the mandate lett...