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Public Audit Committee
“Tackling child poverty”
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Richard Leonard
I think that John Dickie wants to come in on that point.
10:00Public Audit Committee
“Tackling child poverty”
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Richard Leonard
What are your experiences from being involved in the Renfrewshire tackling poverty commission? Does that experience provide an insight into what can be achieved at a local level?
Public Audit Committee
“Tackling child poverty”
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Richard Leonard
I will move us on to the funding for the anti-child poverty strategy. I invite Craig Hoy to ask a couple of questions.
Public Audit Committee
“Tackling child poverty”
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Richard Leonard
We started the meeting talking about the human face of child poverty in Scotland and what is happening, and I want to go around the table to ask for your reflections on what we have discussed.
I also want to ask about a point that is made in the briefing by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which estimates that
“by October 2022, the inflation rate faced by the least affluent ten per cent of households could be as much as 75 per cent higher than that faced by the most affluent ten per cent.”
The challenges that we have discussed will be accelerated and made even tougher, as is shown by that factual assessment of the discriminatory nature of the cost of living crisis and who is being penalised the most.
I will go around the table, beginning with Bruce Adamson. Do you have any reflections on what that means out there, and do you want to raise any final points on this morning’s session?
10:30Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Richard Leonard
What is the point of the Cabinet if it does not take decisions of that kind?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Richard Leonard
Well, the view of Audit Scotland is that there is “insufficient documentary evidence”, and paragraph 5.1.9 of the Scottish public finance manual spells out the kind of recording of those decisions that there needs to be.
I have a final question for you, before I hand over to the deputy convener. You mentioned that you had no involvement in the decisions around 8 and 9 October 2015, but your senior special adviser, Alexander Anderson, was copied into all of those emails.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Richard Leonard
Are you saying that your senior special adviser did not report back to you about those conversations?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Richard Leonard
Thank you. I now turn to Willie Coffey, who has a couple more questions to put, after which I will bring in Graham Simpson.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Richard Leonard
So, on the record, you are saying that.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Richard Leonard
Thank you, Willie. I will endeavour to bring you back in at some point.
I turn to Craig Hoy, who has some questions.
