Engagements and total cost incurred by Crofting Commission: FOI release

Information requested

The total costs incurred by the Crofting Commission from 2014 to the present day, including all secretariat staffing costs, daily commissioner fees and expenses, events, publications and office-running costs. And a record of all engagement between commissioners and Scottish Government ministers and Cabinet Secretaries from 2014 to the present day.

Response

In response to the first part of your FOI request, seeking the total costs incurred by the Crofting Commission since 2014, I would direct you to the Crofting Commission’s website, which contains the Commission’s past and current Annual Reports and Accounts:

Annual Report and Accounts | Crofting Commission (scotland.gov.uk)

For copies of the Annual Reports and Accounts relating to the period 2014/15 and 2015/16, you would need to contact the Crofting Commission directly. The contact details for the Crofting Commission are Tel: 01463 663439 or Email: info@crofting.gov.scot.

Regarding your second request, I can confirm that there is no record of a Scottish Minister having attended a Crofting Commission Board Meeting since 2014.

Engagements / Meetings / Correspondence between the Crofting Commission Board and a Scottish Minister:

• 6 March 2014
• 3 June 2014
• 6 October 2014
• 8 May 2015
• 22 May 2015
• 25 June 2015
• 3 September 2015
• 9 November 2015
• 8 June 2016
• 15 July 2016
• 21 September 2016
• November 2016
• December 2016
• 16 December 2016
• February 2017
• 29 March 2017
• 19 June 2017
• 21 November 2017
• 29 June 2018
• 1 August 2019
• 12 November 2019
• 30 June 2020
• 2 July 2021
• 4 October 2021
• 13 October 2021

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