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.): Statement of Policy by The Scottish Ministers in exercise of the power in Section 1 of the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 SG/2022/88 th I enclose one copy of the above report for laying before the Scottish Parliament on 10 May 2022.
It should be holding the public services to account and politicians should be holding the Government to account to ensure that those public services are held to account.
Subsection (2) defines what is meant by “equivalised” – which is that household income has been adjusted to take account of variations in household size and composition.
The Commission must also, in respect of each 4-year period, lay before the Parliament, a strategic plan setting out how it proposes to fulfil its functions during that time.
These are currently being audited by Audit Scotland for inclusion in our next annual report and accounts, which are due for publication and laying in the Scottish Parliament in December 2024.
This is fundamentally at odds with the devolution settlement, which places responsibility for devolved matters with the Scottish Government, accountable, through the Scottish Parliament, to people in Scotland.
The Scottish Ministers must lay a copy of the report prepared by the Electoral Commission into the operation of the pilot at the same time as laying a draft of the SSI.