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That would happen if the bill required the consent of the Scottish ministers. The Scottish ministers are accountable to the Scottish Parliament in the same way as the secretary of state has the powers but is accountable to the UK Parliament.
Overall, we look at the operational effectiveness of the agency and public bodies in the discharge of their management of public funds through our annual audit process. Public bodies are accountable for that. The accountable officer of each public body is personally responsible for the effective management of their funds, and they set that out in their annual report and accounts.
(S6O-04488) The Scottish budget for 2025-26 focuses on laying the foundations for Scotland’s long-term success and for directly addressing the priorities of the people of Scotland, including those who live in Ms Adamson’s constituency.
Amendments were agreed by the Parliament at stage 3 that require the Scottish ministers to lay regulations to give effect to disqualification of members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, as well as providing a discretionary power to make regulations to give effect to disqualification of local authority councillors.
More than 150,000 households in Scotland have already benefited from our delivery schemes and we provided more than £210 million to those schemes in the last financial year. We intend to lay regulations in December 2024 to deliver a Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard.
Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on reporting ground (j), for failure to comply with laying requirements? Does the committee also wish to welcome the Scottish Government’s apology for the breach while nevertheless indicating that the committee considers it to be unsatisfactory that this is the second amending...
This Scheme is issued and administered by the SPCB with the purpose of ensuring the regularity, conformity and propriety of the management of public money and resources, which the SPCB is accountable for under the Scotland Act 1998.
It is positive for taxpayers to be able to see their tax position, and rolling out personal accounts will improve efficiency because people who set up an account can update their address.