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Finance and Public Administration Committee
Effective Scottish Government Decision Making
Meeting date: 2 May 2023
Douglas Lumsden
Would others like to see the same thing—a delivery plan as part of the consultation?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Effective Scottish Government Decision Making
Meeting date: 2 May 2023
Douglas Lumsden
Your submission also speaks about potentially being funded through the Scottish Government and local government, and it not being clear where the overlaps are, which is not an efficient way for the Government to spend its money.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Effective Scottish Government Decision Making
Meeting date: 2 May 2023
Douglas Lumsden
On the point about consultation, you said in your submission:
“RTPI Scotland would advocate for consultations to include draft delivery programmes as a matter of course.”
Do you not feel that the Government would be criticised for predetermining the outcome of consultations, if that was in there?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Effective Scottish Government Decision Making
Meeting date: 2 May 2023
Douglas Lumsden
Are organisations trying to align with the NPF, or is it seen as something that is for the Government to deal with?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Effective Scottish Government Decision Making
Meeting date: 2 May 2023
Douglas Lumsden
My final point is on financial transparency. Rachel Le Noan, in your written submission, you spoke about a budget line being reduced by £800,000 and said that
“the impact of the budget reduction was unclear.”
How can the process be improved so that we can follow the money more easily?
10:45Finance and Public Administration Committee
Effective Scottish Government Decision Making
Meeting date: 2 May 2023
Douglas Lumsden
Yes. It is on the fear of losing funding.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Effective Scottish Government Decision Making
Meeting date: 25 April 2023
Douglas Lumsden
To give the Government credit, it might say that it is working with organisations such as Skills Development Scotland, which should be doing that. Would you agree with that?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Effective Scottish Government Decision Making
Meeting date: 25 April 2023
Douglas Lumsden
You mentioned that there is an issue with skills. I want to work out what is going wrong. What can the Government learn from the situation, and what can it put in place to make things better? My question relates not so much to the skills agenda; it is more to do with the decisions that Government can make to improve the situation.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Effective Scottish Government Decision Making
Meeting date: 25 April 2023
Douglas Lumsden
That is something that we have experienced in the Scottish Parliament in relation to ferries, as you might have seen. A decision was made about what was £90 million of spend at the time, although it is up to about £250 million now, and emails were frantically being searched for to find out exactly who gave the approval. I think it is wrong that we are trying to hunt about in email archives to find out who made a decision. Surely, there must be a better way of recording that. Perhaps there is, but it has just not been followed. I am trying to work out which it is.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Effective Scottish Government Decision Making
Meeting date: 25 April 2023
Douglas Lumsden
I am trying to think how we would fit that into a report. Paul Sheerin, did you want to come in?
