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Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: 31 October 2024
Graham Simpson
Did your parents generally use council services online? I am sorry to keep mentioning your parents—it is just because they are in their 70s.
Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: 31 October 2024
Graham Simpson
If you had not been there, would your dad have struggled?
Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: 31 October 2024
Graham Simpson
I recently got a fibre broadband connection, but that only happened because a bloke turned up in my street and asked me to move my car so that he could get access to a cable for a neighbour. He said, “I just happened to notice that you haven’t got a fibre connection”, so I got it. It probably needs to be better advertised.
Has COSLA done any kind of audit of what services councils are offering online and what they do for people who cannot get online?
Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: 31 October 2024
Graham Simpson
The key thing is that people need to know about it.
Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: 31 October 2024
Graham Simpson
Has the report been discussed? If so, by who?
Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: 31 October 2024
Graham Simpson
It is just to clear up some confusion for me. Lesley Fraser, you said right at the start, in response to the convener, that you accepted all the recommendations in the report, but Mr Huggins said that there had been no meeting to discuss it—well, that is what he said.
Has there been a meeting to discuss it or not?
Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: 31 October 2024
Graham Simpson
I want to get to the nub of this. Who is it that has met to decide that you agree with the recommendations in the report?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 29 October 2024
Graham Simpson
Will the member take an intervention?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 29 October 2024
Graham Simpson
Amendment 22 specifies a date for publication of the draft climate change plan. However, it would cut across amendment 55 in the name of Sarah Boyack, and we prefer amendment 55, so I will not move amendment 22.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 29 October 2024
Graham Simpson
Thank you.