How the performance of the Lord Advocate’s office is monitored.

The Lord Advocate is accountable to the Scottish Parliament, along with other Scottish ministers and consistent with the relevant provisions of the Scotland Act 1998. The act makes particular provision at sections 27 and 48 in relation to the Law Officers.
The Lord Advocate is the head of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and the department is subject to parliamentary and audit scrutiny in the same way as any other Scottish Executive department. COPFS’s performance is monitored against key targets relating to the processing of cases, and performance against those targets is published on the department’s website on a quarterly basis. The relevant link is http://www.copfs.gov.uk/About/corporate-info/Targets.
Decisions taken by the Lord Advocate and on his behalf in respect of criminal prosecutions and the investigation of deaths are taken independently of any other person. In that connection he is not subject to the normal rules of collective ministerial responsibility.