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Low level contract management is expected and engagement would be carried out in due course to agree the office best placed to deliver this. Publication Scheme 11.
The option of finding another commercial buyer was also not ruled out, but the public ownership option was the best outcome at the time and the right thing to do in the circumstances.
This led to the development of an updated Information Management Strategy for the Scottish Government which sets out behaviours, governance and best practice for handling information.
Certainly, I am talking to my colleagues in Whitehall every week, and we are seeking to optimise the existing devolution settlement as best we can to deliver the very best outcomes and to serve our respective ministers.
Through our annual audit work in a local government context, we will look at the statutory duty of best value in relation to community empowerment and the wider duty on all accountable officers of public bodies to implement the principles of best value.
The consultation builds on the ambitions set out in Scotland’s Learning Estate Strategy, refreshed in November 2025, and seeks views on how best to update the regulations to meet current and future needs.
We will consider the evidence heard and come to a view on how best to proceed. I will be back in touch following the roundtable evidence session with an update on the views of Committee members.
The Committee may wish to consider this briefing as part of their work programme. With best wishes Stephen Boyle Auditor General for Scotland
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