Enterprise and Skills Review Implementation Board: FOI release

FOI reference: FOI/18/00946
Date received: 21 March 2018
Date responded: 18 April 2018

Information requested

Details of how many members of the SG's Enterprise and Skills Review Implementation Board subsequently became members of the SG's Strategic Board.

Response

Information on the Enterprise and Skills Review Implementation Board, including minutes of meetings, is available at /groups/enterprise-and-skills-review-implementation-board/

Membership of the Implementation Board was as follows:

Lorne Crerar – Chair of Implementation Board
Bob Keiller – Scottish Enterprise
Alice Brown – Scottish Funding Council
John McClelland – Skills Development Scotland
Donald MacRae – Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Steven Heddle – COSLA
Grahame Smith – Scottish Trades Union Congress
Stephen Boyle – RBS
Mhairi Harrington – West Lothian College
Sir Ian Diamond – Aberdeen University
Teresa Bray – Changeworks
Susan Love – Federation of Small Businesses
Lord John Thurso – VisitScotland
Liz Cameron – Scottish Chambers of Commerce
Mark Bevan – Scottish Council for Development and Industry
Chris Gauld – Spark Energy
Hugh Aitken – Confederation of British Industry

Information on the Enterprise and Skills Strategic Board, including minutes of meetings, is available at /groups/enterprise-and-skills-strategic-board/

Membership of the Strategic Board is as follows:

Nora Senior – Chair
Wendy Alexander – University of Dundee
Karen Betts – Scotch Whisky Association
Liz Cameron – Scottish Chambers of Commerce
Mike Cantlay – Scottish Funding Council
Sara Carter – University of Strathclyde
Lorne Crerar – Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Audrey Cumberford – West College Scotland
Jeanette Forbes – PCL Group
Russel Griggs – South of Scotland Economic Partnership
Poonam Gupta – PG Paper Company
Steven Heddle – COSLA
Bob Keiller – Scottish Enterprise
John McClelland – Skills Development Scotland
Gerry McCusker – Dog Digital, Chair of BIMA Scotland
Scott McLarty – Spirit Aerosystems
Grahame Smith – STUC

Therefore, the following six people were members of both boards:

Liz Cameron – Scottish Chambers of Commerce
Lorne Crerar – Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Bob Keiller – Scottish Enterprise
Steven Heddle – COSLA
John McClelland – Skills Development Scotland
Grahame Smith – Scottish Trades Union Congress

About FOI

The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. View all FOI responses at http://www.gov.scot/foi-responses