Transport Scotland Gifts and hospitality declarations: FOI release

Information requested

 

1. Please confirm that Scottish Civil Servants are required to declare any gifts or hospitality that they receive.
2. Please confirm that a record is kept of such declarations.
3. 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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