Recommendation 13

The Committee has heard concerns as to whether Healthcare Improvement Scotland has sufficient capacity and resources to be able to enforce the Bill effectively once implemented. While acknowledging Healthcare Improvement Scotland's long term ambition that its enforcement functions will become self-financing from registration fee income, the Committee seeks assurances from the Scottish Government that, in the short term, it is committed to putting in place the necessary additional funding to allow HIS to properly enforce the Bill from the outset and to amend the Financial Memorandum accompanying the Bill to reflect this.