- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 27 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-20752 and S5W-20753 by Aileen Campbell on 15 January 2019, whether it now holds information on what the verified financial gain (VFG) is to date of its Financial Health Check service and, if so, what this is.
Answer
Financial gains of £2,503,653.02 have been recorded for the first six months of operation from November 2018 to April 2019.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 27 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23331 by Jamie Hepburn on 6 June 2019, how it measures the race pay gap of (a) the Scottish Government and its agencies and (b) the (i) third and (ii) private sector.
Answer
Scottish Government staff have the ability to voluntarily self-declare any ethnicity through our online eHR system. There is an option to ‘Prefer not to say’.
Each person’s total annual remuneration is calculated by adding their salary as at a specified date (we used 31 Dec 2018) to any ongoing allowances (such as pay supplements for recruitment and retention purposes). The mean and median remuneration were then calculated. The difference in means and medians between the two groups was expressed as the pay gap. Those staff who had chosen ‘Prefer not to say’ were excluded from the pay gap calculation, as were those who had not made any declaration. This process is the same for Scottish Government agencies.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 26 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23316 by Jamie Hepburn on 6 June 2019, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of staff in each of the public bodies there were in each pay band.
Answer
Table 1 shows the total headcount for employees in Scottish Government Core, and the public bodies referred to in S5W-23316. A breakdown of staff numbers per band is also given. For the purposes of this table, “others” refers to members of the Senior Civil Service, and Non Assimilated Grades.
The following data includes staff who have recorded their disability status, who have declared that they would prefer not to say, or who have not recorded any response on HR systems.
Table 1
Headcount as at 31 December 2019 | | Band A | Band B | Band C | Others | All Staff |
SG Core | SG Core | 892 (14%) | 3,748 (57%) | 1,584 (24%) | 330 (5%) | 6,554 |
Executive Agency | Accountant in Bankruptcy | 42 (32%) | 82 (63%) | 5 (4%) | 1 (1%) | 130 |
Disclosure Scotland | 152 (54%) | 109 (39%) | 12 (4%) | 7 (3%) | 280 |
Education Scotland | 38 (14%) | 65 (24%) | 158 (59%) | 9 (3%) | 270 |
Student Awards Agency for Scotland | 125 (55%) | 92 (41%) | 7 (3%) | 1 (0%) | 225 |
Scottish Public Pensions Agency | 193 (61%) | 111 (35%) | 10 (3%) | 1 (0%) | 315 |
Social Security Scotland | 102 (41%) | 117 (47%) | 31 (12%) | 1 (0%) | 251 |
Transport Scotland | 60 (14%) | 255 (58%) | 115 (26%) | 9 (2%) | 439 |
Non-ministerial offices | Food Standards Scotland | 8 (4%) | 138 (76%) | 11 (6%) | 25 (14%) | 182 |
National Records of Scotland | 159 (38%) | 222 (53%) | 39 (9%) | 0 (0%) | 420 |
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 26 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23316 by Jamie Hepburn on 6 June 2019, what the median salary was for each of the public bodies.
Answer
Table 1 gives the median salary for each of the public bodies referred to in S5W-23316. The following data given is reliant on voluntary self-declaration of disabled or non-disabled status.
Table 1
Median Salary as at 31 Dec 2018 | | Disabled | Non-Disabled | All Staff |
SG Core | SG Core | £33,094 | £37,847 | £36,328 |
Executive Agency | Accountant in Bankruptcy | £25,559 | £27,515 | £27,515 |
Disclosure Scotland | £20,732 | £26,538 | £23,409 |
Education Scotland | £41,243 | £62,379 | £60,379 |
Student Awards Agency for Scotland | £26,538 | £28,891 | £23,409 |
Scottish Public Pensions Agency | £22,071 | £24,580 | £20,732 |
Social Security Scotland | £24,580 | £33,129 | £24,580 |
Transport Scotland | £33,094 | £40,305 | £40,305 |
Non-ministerial offices | Food Standards Scotland | £27,515 | £31,693 | £27,515 |
National Records of Scotland | £27,515 | £31,515 | £28,891 |
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 26 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-17169 by Jeane Freeman on 22 June 2018, whether it will provide (a) a final breakdown for (i) 2017-18 and (ii) 2018-19, (b) the figure since April 2019 to date and (c) its estimated final figure for 2019-20.
Answer
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate costs, exceeding the £600 threshold.
For further information on our annual spend, please refer to the following publications:
The Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2018, available at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-government-consolidated-accounts-year-ended-31-march-2018/
The Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019, to be published in 2019
For further information on our annual spend, please refer to the following publications:
The Scottish government Budget 2019-20, available at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-budget-2019-20/
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 21 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether the advocacy service for the Scottish Social Security system invitation to tender has been issued and, if (a) so, on what date and (b) not, when it will do so.
Answer
The Scottish Government intends to issue the invitation to tender for social
security advocacy support in the autumn of 2019.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 21 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23532 by Jeane Freeman on 13 June 2019, whether Social Security Scotland will meet the cost of, or refund, any fees incurred while obtaining certification or evidence for the purposes of supporting an application for disability assistance.
Answer
Where Social Security Scotland collects information on behalf of an individual there will be no fee to the individual. We are developing our approach to how best Social Security Scotland can support the information gathering process, particularly in relation to accessing information that already exists in the public sector.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 21 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the publication of the contract notice for the advocacy service for the Scottish Social Security system did not take place on 3 June 2019.
Answer
The social security advocacy “Prior Information Notice” (PIN) published in March provided an estimated issue date for the invitation to tender of 3 June. This was indicative only and was not a formal commitment to issue on this date.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 21 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-19213 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 25 October 2018, whether it will update the table to provide details of which private sector companies are suppliers to the Social Security Directorate and Social Security Scotland, broken down by whether they are (a) disability confident, (b) carer positive and (c) living wage accredited.
Answer
The suppliers referred to are listed in the following table with their current status in the following categories: (a) disability confident, (b) carer positive and (c) living wage accredited, Suppliers awarded contracts since October 2018 are now listed.
Suppliers | disability confident | carer positive | living wage accredited |
28 York Place Limited | No | No | No |
2i Limited | No | No | Yes |
2T Security Limited | No | No | No |
Aberdeen PA Limited t/a Scottish PA Network | No | No | No |
Albion Trust Management Limited | No | No | No |
ACCA | No | No | Yes |
APS Group (Scotland) Limited | Yes | No | Yes |
ASA Recruitment | No | No | Yes |
Association for Project Management (APM) | Yes | No | No |
Azure Support Services Limited | No | No | No |
Calton Heritage & Learning Centre | No | No | No |
Capita Business Services Limited - SWAN | No | No | Yes |
Capita Resourcing Limited | No | No | No |
Capital Solutions | No | No | Yes |
Carnegie Enterprise Limited | No | No | Yes |
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) | Yes | No | Yes |
CIPD Enterprises Limited | No | No | No |
CIPFA Business Limited | No | No | No |
Club Class Catering | No | No | No |
Computacenter United Kingdom Limited | Yes | No | No |
Cordia | Yes | No | No |
Craigforth HCAS Limited | No | No | No |
Daisy Communications Limited | No | No | No |
Dcal Consulting Limited | No | No | No |
Demys Limited | No | No | No |
Diona (UK) Limited | No | No | Yes |
Dod's Parliamentary Communications | No | No | No |
DXC Technology | No | No | No |
Eagle Couriers Scotland Limited | Yes | No | No |
Edinburgh Training & Conference Venue | No | No | No |
Elite Training & Consultancy (Scotland) Limited | No | No | No |
ExecSpace Limited | No | No | No |
Fannan & Scott Limited t/a Northern Services | No | No | No |
Flexiform Business Furniture Limited | No | No | Yes |
FPSG Connect Limited | No | No | Yes |
Gartner UK Limited | No | No | Yes |
Gate Worldwide Limited, The | No | No | No |
Global Language Services Limited | No | No | Yes |
Government Knowledge Training Limited | No | No | No |
Grand Central Hotel (Glasgow) | No | No | No |
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited | Yes | No | Yes |
Heart of Midlothian Plc | No | No | Yes |
Holyrood Communications Limited | No | No | No |
Horsecross Arts (Perth) Limited | No | No | No |
HP Inc. UK Limited | No | No | No |
i Train Scotland | No | No | No |
IBM UK Limited | No | No | Yes |
IET Services Limited | No | No | No |
Insight Direct UK Limited | No | No | No |
Institute for Management Studies (Scotland), The | No | No | No |
Jonathan Elliott t/a Talk Action | No | No | No |
Jones Lang La Salle Limited | No | No | Yes |
KSO Research Limited | No | No | Yes |
LA Catering | No | No | No |
Leidos Innovations UK Limited | No | No | No |
Lesar UK Limited | No | No | No |
Live Borders Limited | No | No | No |
MacRoberts, Solicitors | Yes | No | Yes |
Melting Pot | No | No | Yes |
Misco UK Limited | No | No | No |
Mitrefinch Limited | No | No | No |
Morton Fraser | No | No | No |
Neatebox Limited | Yes | No | No |
New Ricoh UK Limited | No | No | No |
nuVideo Limited | No | No | No |
ORB International | No | No | No |
ORB International KMS Limited | No | No | No |
Parity Professionals Limited | No | No | Yes |
Plain English Campaign Limited | No | No | No |
Pluralsight LLC | No | No | No |
QA Limited | Yes | No | No |
Quo Imus Limited T/A QI Consulting | No | No | No |
Radisson SAS Edinburgh Hotel | No | No | No |
Ridgeway Consulting | No | No | No |
Ross Promotional Products Limited | No | No | No |
Rostec Consultancy Limited | No | No | No |
Salesforce.com Sarl | No | No | No |
Sapphire Technologies Limited | No | No | No |
Scottish Storytelling Centre | No | No | No |
Security Services Group | No | No | No |
Service Graphics Limited | No | No | No |
Sopra Steria Limited | No | No | Yes |
Spring Technology Staffing Services Limited | No | No | Yes |
STUC Training Limited | No | No | Yes |
Taylor McKenzie Research & Marketing Limited | No | No | Yes |
Tayside Contracts | Yes | No | Yes |
The Hub Events Limited | No | No | No |
The OR Society | No | No | No |
The Stationery Office (TSO) | No | No | No |
TMP (UK) Limited | No | No | No |
TNS UK Limited t/a TNS BMRB | No | No | No |
Trustmarque Solutions Limited | No | No | No |
Viking Direct Limited | No | No | No |
XMA Limited | No | No | No |
Since October 2018 | | | |
Alan McGrgor & Associates | No | No | No |
Allpay Limited | No | No | Yes |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc | No | No | No |
Barclaycard Commercial Payments | Yes | No | Yes |
Capital Document Solutions | No | No | No |
Civic Computing Ltd | No | No | Yes |
Deloitte LLP | No | No | Yes |
Diona UK Ltd | No | No | No |
Dovetail Enterprises (1993) Ltd | No | No | No |
Ent Serv UK Ltd | No | No | No |
Equifax Ltd | No | No | Yes |
Global Connections Scotland Ltd | No | No | No |
GMG Risk Strategies Ltd | No | No | Yes |
Government Digital Service | Yes | No | Yes |
IFF Research Ltd | No | No | No |
Inch Architecture | No | No | No |
KPMG LLP | Yes | No | Yes |
LeasePlan UK Ltd | No | No | Yes |
Lorien | Yes | No | Yes |
MD Consulting Ltd | No | No | No |
Michael Laing Architects | No | No | No |
NCC Group Cyber Security Services | No | No | No |
New Verve Consulting Ltd | No | No | No |
Northern Services | No | No | No |
Ordinance Survey | No | No | No |
Pertemps | No | No | No |
QA Symphony | No | No | No |
Rocket Science (UK) Ltd | No | No | No |
Royal Mail | No | No | No |
Softcat | No | No | Yes |
Softelligence UK Ltd | No | No | No |
Venesky Brown | No | No | No |
Whitespace (Scotland) Ltd | No | No | No |
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 19 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23502 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 6 June 2019, in light of the responses to questions S5W-23030 and S5W-23034 not containing the information that was requested, whether it will confirm when analysis of all relevant legislation, regulations, guidance and case law began or was commissioned.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-23504 on 11 June 2019. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .
