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For instance, public authorities are required by Regulation 5(4) to ensure "as far as practicable" that information provided in response to a request for environmental information is "up to date, accurate and comparable".1The Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations. (2004).
The Committee asked how schemes took into account the specific demographic, geographic and financial challenges facing crofters compared to larger farm holdings. A Scottish Government official said several measures were in place to make it easier for crofters to comply with the new requirements.
meetingId=15882 Carnegie UK also noted that “… one of the advantages of a commissioner, compared with somebody in a public body or a government department, is that they can take a helicopter view and join the dots, which is difficult because of the way that departmental budgets work at the moment”.1Scottish Parliament. (2024).
Minor Points
The Committee identified a total of 13 instruments on which minor points were raised (generally relating to typographical or referencing errors) compared with 11 instruments identified in quarter 3.
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During oral evidence, Audit Scotland described this as "pass-through funding", designed to be passed directly to staff to increase pay rates and take them to a competitive level compared to other equivalent employers.