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I wrote to the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee on 22 June confirming that I now intend to lay a revised NPF4 in the Scottish Parliament in the autumn.
People told us that they want accountability in the complaints process to ensure it is an effective route for redress & driving service improvements when things go wrong.
That does not respect the requirement that at least 28 days should elapse between the laying of an instrument that is subject to negative procedure and the coming into force of that instrument.
Members indicated agreement.Public Office (Accountability) (PE1765) Public Office (Accountability) (PE1765) PE1765, which has been lodged by Fiona McBride, is on making those in Scottish public office accountable.
A timescale is not necessarily a good thing. If Parliament wants me to account for a direction that I make, it would be right to do so at that particular point in time, rather than laying down a marked period for reporting.
The endowment fund appoints its own auditors. Since 2014, the accounts of the endowment fund have been consolidated within those of the NHS board because of—to put it in lay terms—the degree of overlap between them.