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Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects (Accountability and Governance)
Meeting date: 31 March 2022
Richard Leonard
Has the state of alert been increased in light of the events that have unfolded over the past few weeks?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects (Accountability and Governance)
Meeting date: 31 March 2022
Richard Leonard
For the sake of completeness, have there been any cyberattacks by Russian sources over the past six weeks?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects (Accountability and Governance)
Meeting date: 31 March 2022
Richard Leonard
Moving on to questions on governance, assurance and oversight of major ICT projects, I call Willie Coffey, who also joins us by videolink.
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects (Accountability and Governance)
Meeting date: 31 March 2022
Richard Leonard
But clearly you remain vigilant.
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects (Accountability and Governance)
Meeting date: 31 March 2022
Richard Leonard
I should also say that we are getting tight for time.
Public Audit Committee
“Drug and alcohol services: An update”
Meeting date: 31 March 2022
Richard Leonard
Thank you very much. On that note, we will draw this evidence session to an end. Thanks, as always, to the Auditor General, and to Antony Clark and Jillian Matthew, for joining us this morning. We have looked with a great deal of interest at the briefing paper and the evidence that you have provided, and we will clearly need to consider our next steps. Thank you very much for your time this morning.
11:11 Meeting continued in private until 11:43.Public Audit Committee
“Drug and alcohol services: An update”
Meeting date: 31 March 2022
Richard Leonard
There are further questions to come about the transparency of spending, the governance arrangements and the strategy. However, I have one other question that I want to put to you.
Exhibit 1 in the briefing shows that alcohol-related deaths reduced and levelled off over a period of 15 years and that they have started to rise again. In your opinion and assessment, what measures drove down alcohol-related deaths and what may be the cause of their recent increase?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects (Accountability and Governance)
Meeting date: 31 March 2022
Richard Leonard
Yes, Mr Huggins—please do.
Public Audit Committee
“Drug and alcohol services: An update”
Meeting date: 31 March 2022
Richard Leonard
The next item on our agenda is consideration of Audit Scotland’s recent briefing on drug and alcohol services, which is an update report on some work that Audit Scotland has looked at over a decade or more.
We are joined in the committee room by Stephen Boyle, the Auditor General for Scotland, and, from Audit Scotland, Antony Clark, interim director of performance audit and best value, and Jillian Matthew, senior manager, performance audit and best value.
I invite the Auditor General to make an opening statement.
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects (Accountability and Governance)
Meeting date: 31 March 2022
Richard Leonard
We may have a session in the future when we drill a bit more deeply into some of the individual ICT projects.
I will now hand over to Colin Beattie, who has a number of questions.
