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Our new corporate business system will run all our back-office services and do all the transactional activity to do with the 15,000 appointees with whom we work—the teachers who get payments and draw expenses from us.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 September 2015
In the case of the WASPI women, they have been denied that which is rightfully theirs and they are not getting that pension. How can they get a top-up of something that they are not getting?
All that would surely fly in the face of the Scottish Government’s own national outcomes and programme for Government priorities for getting and keeping more Scots active for life.
I think that, ultimately, that is where committees and the Parliament want to get to; it is certainly where I want to get to, so that there is transparency right across Government.
There is a balance to find there, because if Audit Scotland is wanting more and more data, the backlog in front-line services will just get bigger and bigger. How do we get that balance?