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Members' business debates certainly address issues, but they really do not hold ministers to account. They are obliged to respond, but they are not obliged to take action.
Like, I am sure, all other members, I endorse the general principle that Parliament must have an opportunity to call ministers to account for their decisions. We argue that we are delivering that through the bill and that Donald Gorrie promotes the wrong mechanism.
For example, one of our major banks flouts the law that requires people who open bank accounts to have an address. The bank opens accounts for the sellers of The Big Issue, who are, by definition, homeless.
Mr Davidson, in light of the minister's stated intention to revoke the Road User Charging Schemes (Keeping of Accounts and Relevant Expenses) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 due to a technical flaw, do you wish to move motion S2M-3901?
Will he assure us that in future the accounts of boards throughout Scotland will be more transparent in their reporting of the use of non-recurring funding?
It would help the committee to hold the Government in Scotland to account if we could see individual departmental policies and any audit that has taken place.Secondly, even if Government departments have sustainable development policies, they are often implemented by quangos or non-governmental bodies.
The health board must be asked to account for its decision. It must also account for the millions of pounds that the public have given to Yorkhill and to Ronald McDonald House, which is on that site.I urge the committee to pass the petition to the Health Committee and to remind that committee that its predecessor, th...
The first three amendments in the group will meet that aim, and the last two amendments will insert several new definitions in the interpretation section to take account of the committee's comments.I move amendment 19.