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It is essential that management of transactions is based upon best commercial practice informed by public accountability requirements and that property is bought, sold and leased at a price and on other conditions which are best obtainable for the public interest at that time.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 February 2011
The Scottish Library and Information Council has brought together the Scottish figures by local authority area from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting (CIPFA). CIPFA figures are only available from 2000 onwards and relate to books.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take account of the legal system of England and Wales and the Aarhus Compliance Committee’s recent ruling in relation to non-compliance with the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters when implementing the reforms outlin...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 2010
The planning and provision of NHS services is a matter for NHS boards. NHS boards are expected to take account of relevant evidence based advice and guidance in the delivery of NHS services.
Ministers have received since then a range of further views and representations on the proposed merger, all of which will be taken into account by ministers in reaching their decision.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce a scheme equivalent to the English system that takes account of the actual energy usage of a building as occupied rather than its theoretical usage as provided at the planning and building stage.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 March 2010
At this meeting I made clear that the Scottish Government was only interested in options that allowed Scottish Water to remain in public ownership and accountable to the people of Scotland through Scottish ministers.
It will not be possible to report the annual value of Scottish Government spending until the changes have been implemented in accounting year 2010-11. S3W-31571
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 February 2010
This means that a direct payment package to purchase a service from a provider should take into account the range of hourly rates for day, night, weekend, bank and local holiday and emergency cover.