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Motion · S6M-00530 · 24 Jun 2021

Accounts Commission Best Value Assurance Report, Aberdeen City Council

Lodged by Douglas Lumsden Standard Motion 12 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates the 2020 UK Council of the Year, Aberdeen City Council, following the Accounts Commission's Best Value Assurance Report, which stated that the local authority had significantly improved its performance over the last five years; understands that the Accounts Commission commended the council on performance gains made since its last assessment in 2015, attributing this to a "major transformation programme”, which allowed the council’s strategies to be firmly aligned with the Local Outcome Improvement Plan, with an emphasis on welfare and wellbeing; highlights that the council responded well to the multiple impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and recognises that the Accounts Commission acknowledged the comprehensive scale of the council’s capital programme, which in recent years has delivered a £330 million event complex, an award-winning development of Aberdeen Art Gallery, the city’s biggest council house building programme in a generation, and infrastructure to tackle climate change.

Supporters (12)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.