Corporate spend savings correspondence and calculations: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
1. How the Scottish Government calculated that a 20% reduction in public body corporate costs would result in a £1 billion in annualised savings as per its Public Service Reform Strategy published on 19 June 2025. Please set out the total costs that the Scottish Government currently estimates is being spent on corporate costs (using the same definition that’s in the strategy) and how the savings will be achieved in the financial years until 2029-30 when £1 billion in savings will be made.
2. All correspondence from the Minister for Public Finance to other Scottish Ministers and officials within the relevant Scottish Government directorate discussing the £1 billion target in annualised savings by 2029-30. Please include all correspondence relating to this subject including emails, letters and meetings (both virtual and in person – and including minutes of those meetings) since 1 January 2025.
Response
I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested.
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