Meeting of the Parliament 10 December 2014
No such emphatic independent assessment is made of the Scottish Government’s financial performance. The fiscal commission is not independent, but it should and must be. If Mr Swinney wants early action, which he called for in his remarks to the Parliament this afternoon, how about starting with the fiscal commission?
I move amendment S4M-11830.1, to insert after “these powers”:
“; notes the comment made by Lord Smith that ‘there is a strong desire to see the principle of devolution extended further, with the transfer of powers from Holyrood to local communities’; believes that, having persistently centralised services over the last seven years, the Scottish Government must fully devolve powers in Scotland in a manner that is consistent with the recommendations of the Smith Commission agreement; considers that responsibility for the management of the Crown Estate’s economic assets and the revenue generated from these should be devolved to local authority areas such as Orkney, Shetland and Na h-Eileanan Siar following the transfer of these powers to the Parliament as detailed in sections 32 and 33 of the Smith Commission report,”.
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