Following the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, the UK Government established a new UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The purpose of this Fund is to allocate funding through a single UK wide framework to local partners within the UK.
The UK Government has not yet clearly explained:
The Public Audit Committee has explored the audit and accountability arrangements with both UK and Scottish Governments. It has also raised these issues during oral evidence sessions with the
Auditor General for Scotland and the Scottish Government. This continues the work of predecessor committees in Sessions 4 and 5 on the scope of the Scotland Act 2016: audit and accountability arrangements.
The audit and accountability arrangements were discussed at the following Committee meetings:
The Committee has sent and received the following correspondence during its scrutiny of the audit and accountability arrangements:
Letter to the Convener from Stephen Boyle, the Auditor General for Scotland and Dr William Moyes, Chair, Accounts Commission, 28 April 2023
Letter from the Convener to Stephen Boyle, the Auditor General for Scotland, 3 April 2023
Correspondence to the Convener from John Swinney, Deputy First Minister, Scottish Government, 8 February 2023
Letter to the Convener from John Swinney, Deputy First Minister, Scottish Government, 7 November 2022
Letter from the Convener to John Swinney MSP, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery, Scottish Government, 4 October 2022
Correspondence to the Convener from Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, UK Government, 26 July 2022
Letter to the Convener from Kate Forbes, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Economy, Scottish Government, 18 July 2022
Letter from the Convener to Kate Forbes, Cabinet Secretary Finance and the Economy, Scottish Government, 17 June 2022
Letter from the Convener to Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, UK Government, 17 June 2022
Letter to the Convener from Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, UK Government, 6 May 2022
Letter to the Convener from Kate Forbes, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Economy, Scottish Government, 25 April 2022
Letter from the Convener to Kate Forbes, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy, Scottish Government, 29 March 2022
Letter from the Convener to Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, UK Government, 29 March 2022