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John Dalyrmple made the point that we need to remind ourselves where our primary accountability lies. Too often the primary accountability seems to be to the employer rather than the person being served and this needs to be reversed.
The exchange of knowledge, ideas and experience is crucial to enabling the Parliament to meet its central purpose of holding the Scottish Government to account on behalf of people throughout Scotland.
Scottish Ministers must, at the same time as laying regulations which amend a target or topic, lay a statement before parliament setting out why they consider it appropriate to amend the target or topic.
Paragraph 16 requires Redress Scotland to keep accounts, and to prepare a statement of account for each financial year and send a copy to the Scottish Ministers.
Factors are very closely scrutinised in all their actions by the Accountant of Court’s office. That is done annually through the accounting process and in relation to any major activities through the management plan or as a result of regular contact with the Accountant of Court’s office, where the factor and the accountant will discuss in detail the steps that a factor will take to address issues arising in the case.
Then, of course, you can scrutinise and hold me to account for those direct comparisons. Let us forget about the accounting changes that have been implemented.