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It might be an interesting matter for Stewart Stevenson to pursue at his leisure.I am interested in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service's accountability to victims and I am not sure that we have managed to make it accountable.
I will let Colin Miller comment in detail on the point about accountability. Generally speaking, the Executive would expect to be held fully to account for its work.
We are talking about political accountability. If any of the political parties asked a question that was not relevant and that the public were not interested in, the public and the press would rightly hold them accountable.
Is there a way in which the Accounts Commission and Audit Scotland between them can lay down a framework for training that will highlight areas to reinforce the fact that members have a responsibility to be up to speed?
As well as giving young people the opportunity to state their views, the amendments place an obligation on local authorities to take account of those views and to feed them in to their decision-making process.
Yes, to an extent that is taken into account, in that the agreed opinion for resource accounts—as contained in the resource accounting manual—will be "a true and fair view".