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A regional health authority publishes its board minutes, annual performance targets, audited accounts and details of how it awards contracts, so that citizens and legislators can scrutinise its decisions. Which public sector governance principle is most directly being demonstrated?
The authority is demonstrating transparency and openness. By publishing minutes, targets, audited accounts and contract awards, it allows citizens and legislators to scrutinise decisions and hold officials to account, which is a core principle of good public sector governance.
- ATransparency and opennessCorrect
- BEconomies of scale
- CCompetitive differentiation
- DCost leadership
Explanation
Publishing minutes, targets, accounts and contract awards lets outsiders scrutinise decisions, which is openness or transparency. The other options are strategy or economics terms and not governance principles.
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