This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The JCVI consists of a wide range of highly qualified professionals, as well as lay members to provide the Committee with a wider lay perspective on issues.
We would like more detail about what that would actually mean in practice, and where the lines of accountability would lie. The accountable officers in each of the 22 health boards would want to understand better what they were actually accountable for, if the national care service board itself were to have that oversight and accountability.
Similarly, it is not obvious from the 6 Prescription Cost Analysis 2024 – Northern Ireland 5 published data how administrative fees and overheads are accounted for between the different nations.
Dr Cook suggested that vessel running costs account for “a high proportion of the costs of compliance” and noted that the vessels were previously contracted commercially.
As a minimum, I expect the UK to follow Basel Convention guidelines on limits and go beyond these where evidence is compelling for tighter restrictions. Any decisions must take full account of the guiding environmental principles.
A further source of distress was the level of detail published, for example, graphic accounts of the harm inflicted on their child and diagrams of their final movements. 14.
Additionally, the Committee notes the UK Government’s autumn budget was published on the 27 October 2021. This letter does not take account of any impacts from this announcement. 8.
As part of that, we need to consider better reporting and accountability. I am open to discussions about how we embed greater levels of accountability in the process.
It is necessary to reflect those adjustments to ensure that the budget is consistent with the accounting requirements and with the final outturn that will be reported in our annual accounts.