Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Misogyny in musicFound: We now have a two-year business plan, an operational blueprint and a corporate strategy in place,
Apr. 24 2024
Source Page: Dr Therese Mary William v Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust: [2024] EAT 58Found: Byron Charlton, the Respondent’s Head of Information Governance and Assurance, filed a further incident
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: should be a fixed agenda item and hospitals should appoint an independent member to ensure that governance
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: Overview Our Corporate Strategy* recognises that the need for much closer working across regulators
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: I have almost 30 years of International and UK experience in corporate governance and financial services
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: of NHS director employment and training data are good measures that have contributed to improved corporate
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: existence and need for whistleblowing guardians is an implicit admission of a huge failure of national governance
Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Transport Committee (Department: Department for Transport)Found: The proposal is that Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd will be the corporate entity, the legal entity
Apr. 24 2024
Source Page: Procurement - publishing, print, design and associated services lot 3 framework agreement: buyers guideFound: Scotland Act 1998, The Office for the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate
Asked by: Mochan, Carol (Scottish Labour - South Scotland)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it takes to hold public bodies and their leaders to account on the use of public money, in order to ensure that spending is closely aligned to have an impact on reducing inequality and poverty.
Answered by Arthur, Tom - Minister for Community Wealth and Public Finance
Corporate governance and accountability arrangements for public bodies are in place and built around an established series of statutory and administrative mechanisms. These ensure consistent processes and parameters, based on the principles in the Scottish Public Finance Manual, within which public bodies are required to operate in terms of the stewardship of public money, propriety and ethics.
This is supplemented by framework agreements that Scottish Government has in place with most public bodies setting out respective roles and responsibilities, including requirement for bodies to set plans which contribute to achievement of the National Performance Framework outcomes, including tackling poverty. These activities and the sponsorship and relationship arrangements the Scottish Government has with public bodies helps ensure that Scottish Ministers priorities are delivered.
Scottish Government funding to local authorities is allocated using a relative needs-based formula, taking into account disadvantage and various other considerations, including levels of deprivation. While local authorities decide how to spend their available finances they are guided by a set of national and local outcomes, with the Equality Act and associated specific duties providing a framework to help local authorities pay due regard to equality issues.
Specifically, local authorises, and other certain public bodies, in Scotland are subject to the Fairer Scotland Duty, which places a legal responsibility on them to actively consider how they can reduce inequalities of outcome caused by socio-economic disadvantage, when making strategic decisions.