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Official Report
Meeting date:
18 March 2026
Meeting of the Parliament 18 March 2026 [Draft]
That is intended to increase accountability. Who Cares? Scotland has set out the need for stronger accountability in primary legislation for keeping the Promise, and that has been backed up by the Audit Scotland report of 2025, which evidenced confusion five years on from the Promise being made and the difficulty in distributing accountability.
Official Report
Meeting date:
7 January 2026
Education, Children and Young People Committee 07 January 2026
However, a child might have family or friends in Scotland, or they might need to be away from a certain area or certain people. I cannot account for all the different reasons why a child might be placed— Is one of the reasons simply that the authorities cannot find a place in England so they dump the child in Scotland?
Official Report
Meeting date:
9 December 2025
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee 09 December 2025
I see there being an important role. We should be accountable to Parliament, and parliamentary committees should be very robust with Government on where we are not doing enough.
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 November 2025
Economy and Fair Work Committee 26 November 2025
I suppose that it is about fleshing out sufficient flexibility in what has been determined thus far to at least take account of what we think that we are starting to imagine some of the issues might be.
Official Report
Meeting date:
22 May 2025
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee 22 May 2025
It is important—I think that you alluded to this, and that you agree—that we account for the money that we spend because it is taxpayers’ money and therefore it must go to the right purposes.
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 March 2024
Social Justice and Social Security Committee 14 March 2024
Do any other witnesses want to come in on that before we move on? We have heard anecdotal accounts of similar practices, but I do not have any particular evidence on that to share at the moment.
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 November 2023
Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, and Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting) 02 November 2023
That will help us to quantify what a national specification should look like in practice, with clear lines of accountability. I obviously have accountability on a national level, but we also need to look to local partners’ accountability, and a national specification will help...
Official Report
Meeting date:
23 March 2023
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee 23 March 2023
Those kinds of concerns about accessibility, participation, transparency and accountability are inherent to intergovernmental negotiations and are inherently difficult to address.
Official Report
Meeting date:
29 May 2018
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee 29 May 2018
They will also allow some social considerations to be taken into account where issues lead to harm to environmental wellbeing.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 September 2024
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee report on the Companies Act 2006 (Scottish public sector companies to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland) Order 2024 (draft) - Introduction
Once the Order is in force, and Zero Waste Scotland is within the scope of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000, the Principal Accountable Officer will be able to designate a member of staff of Zero Waste Scotland as its Accountable Officer under section 1...
