Transport Scotland Gifts and hospitality declarations: FOI release
- Published
- 8 May 2019
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/19/01168
- Date received
- 30 April 2019
- Date responded
- 7 May 2019
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
- Please confirm that Scottish Civil Servants are required to declare any gifts or hospitality that they receive.
- Please confirm that a record is kept of such declarations.
- Please provide a link to where the information can be examined.
Response
All Transport Scotland staff are Scottish Civil Servants and therefore required to declare and record any gifts or hospitality offered to them in the course of carrying out normal official business.
There are clear guidelines and procedures in place which balance accepted business practice and social convention while avoiding impropriety and conflict of interest. Further information can be found at https://www.gov.scot/publications/civil-service-code/
For your information I note below recorded and declared gifts and hospitality for the time period you are interested in. These entries are extracted from our internal recording systems which are not accessible by the general public.
Scottish Canals Parliamentary Reception Scottish Parliament Edinburgh |
24/4/2013 |
Evening Reception |
Scotland Network Rail -Scottish Breakfast Club Grand Central Hotel |
26/4/2013 |
Rail Magazine Working Breakfast |
Virgin Trains Parliamentary Reception, Scottish Parliament Edinburgh |
28/5/2013 |
Evening Reception |
Scottish Transport Awards Raddison Hotel Glasgow |
20/6/2013 |
Annual Awards Dinner |
Scottish Business Awards Edinburgh International Conference Centre |
21/6/2013 |
Working Dinner |
Conference of European Directors of Roads Executive Dinner , Harvey Nichols Edinburgh |
27/6/2013 |
Executive Working Dinner |
Chartered Institute of Transport & Logistics Transport Practioners Meeting, The Strathallan Hotel, Birmingham |
2/7/2013 |
Keynote speech and presentation |
Brickwork Communications. Barolo Grill Glasgow |
4/7/2013 |
Business Lunch |
Atkins, Scottish Breakfast Club Dinner, The Apex Waterloo Edinburgh |
25/7/2013 |
Working Dinner |
DBRS Ratings Ltd -Balmoral Hotel Edinburgh |
26/7/2013 |
Business Lunch |
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Contact
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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
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Edinburgh
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