Social Security branded items purchased: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for “Details of the total on Social Security Scotland branded items for use by staff, the department and/or for the office etc. These could include: Pens, Notebooks. Mousepads, clothing, phone cases, lanyards, stickers and/or otherwise relevant. Please, where possible, can the list be ordered by item and relevant spend”

You kindly confirmed that a reasonable interpretation was that you were looking for information on spend on branded items that are used daily by staff.

Response

Please see below a copy of all of the information you requested, detailing the branded items which have been purchased for use by staff daily in accordance with the Scottish Government’s procurement framework.

Date	Item	Quantity	Cost
31/10/2018	Keep Cups (Reusable coffee cups)	500	£3,866.94
31/03/2019	Lanyards	1000	£202.50
30/09/2019	Lanyards	3000	£730.00
Total			£4799.44

We purchase other branded items which are used in activities to engage with stakeholders, for example in promoting benefit take up. These items include “pop up” banners. Some information on these items can be found on the website of the Scottish Government: Social Security Scotland - branded merchandise expenditure: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

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