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Public Services Reform information

Overview

Part 3 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 imposes new duties to publish information as soon as is reasonably practicable after the end of each financial year. These duties came into force on 1 October 2010.

Payments with a value over £25,000

Each quarter's information will be published as soon as possible during the year at Payments with a value in excess of £25,000.

Government Procurement Card (GPC) transactions

Each month GPC transactions in excess of £500 will be published as soon as information is available. This commenced from 1 September 2013.

Reports

Hospitality

Includes

Taking each event separately, any non-contractual, discretionary benefit provided to a person where the value exceeds £25.

Excludes

Travel and subsistence allowances and the reimbursement of expenses that are reasonably incurred in relation to service as a member or employee of a public body (including directors).

Reports

Overseas travel

Includes

All costs relating to a trip outside of the UK (hotels, conference fees, travel and subsistence and any other related expenses).

Reports

External consultancy

We outsource much of our IT, Estates and FM services and developments and so we do make use of companies that are classified as business consultancies, though the services we procure may not always be consultancy in nature, we will disclose this information based on the company's classification.

Public relations expenditure

Includes

The cost of staff who wholly deal with internal and external communications, printing cost of annual report.

Excludes

Advertising costs for recruitment of staff, the cost of producing internal newsletters, any literature, advertising or media campaigns that are associated with our core business activity (e.g. jurors' information, forms, fines media campaign).

Reports

2023 to 2024

Category

Total cost (£)

Pay of staff solely dealing with SCS and judicial communications

490,126.29

Miscellaneous

164,20.38

Outsourced production of literature/information resource 

38,483.65 

Total

545,030.32

Category

Pay of staff solely dealing with SCS and judicial communications

Total cost (£)

490,126.29

Category

Miscellaneous

Total cost (£)

164,20.38

Category

Outsourced production of literature/information resource 

Total cost (£)

38,483.65 

Category

Total

Total cost (£)

545,030.32

2021 to 2022

Category

Total cost (£)

Pay of staff solely dealing with SCS and judicial communications

Miscellaneous

Outsourced production of literature/information resource


Total

407,632

Miscellaneous

-

Outsourced production of literature/information resource

-

Total

407,632

Category

Pay of staff solely dealing with SCS and judicial communications

Miscellaneous

Outsourced production of literature/information resource


Total

Total cost (£)

407,632

Category

Miscellaneous

Total cost (£)

-

Category

Outsourced production of literature/information resource

Total cost (£)

-

Category

Total

Total cost (£)

407,632

2020 to 2021

Category

Total cost (£)

Pay of staff solely dealing with SCS and judicial communications

270,580

Miscellaneous

-

Outsourced production of literature/information resource

-

Total

270,580

Category

Pay of staff solely dealing with SCS and judicial communications

Total cost (£)

270,580

Category

Miscellaneous

Total cost (£)

-

Category

Outsourced production of literature/information resource

Total cost (£)

-

Category

Total

Total cost (£)

270,580

2019 to 2020

Category

Total cost (£)

Pay of staff solely dealing with SCS and judicial communications

276,769

Miscellaneous

-

Outsourced production of literature/information resource

-

Total

276,769

Category

Pay of staff solely dealing with SCS and judicial communications

Total cost (£)

276,769

Category

Miscellaneous

Total cost (£)

-

Category

Outsourced production of literature/information resource

Total cost (£)

-

Category

Total

Total cost (£)

276,769

Sustainable growth and efficiency, economy and effectiveness

Information on SCTS contribution to these national priorities will be contained in the Annual Report and Accounts.