Ministerial meetings with Scottish Water Executive Leadership Team: EIR release
- Published
- 9 September 2025
- Directorate
- Energy and Climate Change Directorate
- FOI reference
- EIR/202500477014
- Date received
- 23 July 2025
- Date responded
- 18 August 2025
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
Details of any meetings held by Ministers with any of the Executive leadership team of Scottish Water between Jan 1st 2023 and 30th Jun 2025.
Details being dates , attendees and subjects discussed.
Scottish Water Executive leadership being the individuals listed below, or whoever may have held these positions at the time of the meeting.
Alex Plant - Chief Executive
Peter Farrer - Chief Operating Officer
Lynne Highway - Director for People
Rob Mustard - Director of Capital Investment
Simon Parsons - Director of Environment, Planning and Assurance
Wendy Kimpton - Director of Strategy and Regulation
Kes Juskowiak - Director of Transformation
Chris Toop - Director of Digital
Alan Dingwall – Chief Financial Officer
Emma Campbell - Group Legal Counsel & Director of Governance
Raymond Buchanan - Director of Corporate Affairs
Response
As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
I enclose a copy of the information you requested at Annex A of this EIR response.
Annex A
|
Date |
Meeting |
Who |
With |
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24/01/2023 |
Dinner - Royal Botanic Gardens - Small Partnership Dinner/Burns Supper |
Humza Yousaf - FM |
Dame Susan Rice, Chair |
|
06/06/2023 |
Introductory meeting with the Chair and new Chief Executive of Scottish Water |
Mairi McAllan - Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero & Just Transition |
Dame Susan Rice, Chair Alex Plant, Chief Executive |
|
07/06/2023 |
Reducing sewage spills in Scotland |
Humza Yousaf - FM Mairi McAllan - Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero & Just Transition |
Dame Susan Rice, Chair Alex Plant, Chief Executive Simon Parsons, Director of Strategic Customer Service Planning |
|
08/06/2023 |
SGoRR(M) - resilience |
Humza Yousaf – First Minister Shona Robison - DFM and Cabinet Secretary for Finance Angela Constance – Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs |
Kes Juskowiak |
|
20/06/2023 |
Water scarcity |
Mairi McAllan - Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero & Just Transition |
Peter Farrer, Chief Operating Officer Kes Juskowiak, Water Operations General Manager |
|
23/06/2023 |
Royal Highland Show - visit Scottish water stand |
Shona Robison - DFM and Cabinet Secretary for Finance |
Simon Parsons, Director of Strategic Customer Service Planning Rob Mustard, Director of Capital Investment |
|
23/06/2023 |
Royal Highland Show - visit Scottish water stand |
Lorna Slater - Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity |
Simon Parsons, Director of Strategic Customer Service Planning |
|
|
|
|
Rob Mustard, Director of Capital Investment |
|
17/08/2023 |
Bonnycraig Water Treatment Works - Water Quality |
Mairi McAllan - Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero & Just Transition |
Alex Plant, Chief Executive Simon Parsons, Director of Strategic Customer Service Planning |
|
12/09/2023 |
Biodiversity |
Lorna Slater - Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity |
Alex Plant, Chief Executive Brian Lironi, Public Affairs Director |
|
20/09/2023 |
Global Ethical Finance Initiative Reception, Edinburgh Castle |
Angus Robertson - Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture |
Dame Susan Rice, Chair |
|
07/08/2024 |
Visit to Scottish Water Intelligent Control Centre |
Gillian Martin - Acting Cabinet Secretary Net Zero and energy |
Alex Plant, Chief Executive Simon Parsons, Director of Environment, Planning and Assurance Andrew Walker, Head of Corporate Affairs |
|
02/10/2024 |
Introductory meeting with new Chair |
Gillian Martin - Acting Cabinet Secretary Net Zero and energy |
Deirdre Michie, Chair |
|
30/10/2024 |
Opening of Winchburgh Wastewater Treatment Work |
Gillian Martin - Acting Cabinet Secretary Net Zero and energy |
Alex Plant, Chief Executive Simon Parsons, Director of Environment, Planning and Assurance Rob Mustard, Director of Capital Investment Andrew Walker, Head of Corporate Affairs |
|
06/11/2024 |
Water quality and monitoring |
Gillian Martin - Acting Cabinet Secretary Net Zero and energy |
Simon Parsons, Director of Strategic Customer Service Planning Andy Mortali |
|
10/12/2024 |
Visit - Water of Leith - focus on overflow monitoring |
Gillian Martin - Acting Cabinet Secretary Net Zero and energy |
Simon Parsons, Director of Environment, Planning and Assurance Christine McDougall, Head of Public Affairs Scott Fraser, Head of Stakeholder Engagement |
|
22/01/2025 |
Charges for 2025/26, long-term investment challenges, and pay negotiations |
John Swinney - FM |
Deirdre Michie, Chair Alex Plant, Chief Executive Raymond Buchanan |
|
27/01/2025 |
Opening of Whiteadder Reservoir hydro scheme |
Paul MacLennan - Minister for housing |
Alex Plant (attended event) |
|
05/03/2025 |
SRC 27-33; finance models; water policy for future including heat from sewers |
Kate Forbes - DFM and Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gaelic |
Alex Plant, Chief Executive Alan Dingwall Wendy Kimpton |
|
20/05/2025 |
Pay negotiations |
Gillian Martin - Acting Cabinet Secretary Net Zero and energy |
Alex Plant, Chief Executive |
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