Independent review of Scottish Government's use of mobile messaging apps and non-corporate technology

25. Appendix 11. Scottish Government Structure

Permanent Secretary

Directors Generals (and responsibilities) -

Communities

• Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate
• Local Government and Housing Directorate*
• Public Service Reform Directorate*
• Social Security Directorate*
• Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate*
• Ukraine Resettlement Directorate*

Strategy and External Affairs

• Constitution Directorate
• Culture and Major Events Directorate
• EU Directorate
• External Affairs Directorate
• Parliamentary Counsel Office
• Performance, Delivery and Resilience Directorate*
• Strategy Directorate*

Corporate

• Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate*
• Corporate Transformation and Workplace Directorate*
• Covid Inquiries Response Directorate*
• Digital Directorate*
• Financial Management Directorate*
• Legal Services (Solicitor to the Scottish Government)*
• People Directorate*
• Propriety and Ethics Directorate*
• Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate*^[92]

Economy

• Chief Economist Directorate*
• Culture and Major Events Directorate
• Economic Development Directorate*
• International Trade and Investment Directorate
• Jobs and Wellbeing Economy Directorate*

Education and Justice

• Children and Families Directorate*
• Early Learning and Childcare Directorate*
• Education Reform Directorate*
• Justice Directorate*
• Learning Directorate*
• Lifelong Learning and Skills Directorate*
• Safer Communities Directorate*

Health and Social Care

• Chief Medical Officer Directorate*
• Chief Nursing Officer Directorate*
• Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland Directorate*
• Digital Health and Care Directorate*
• Health Workforce Directorate*
• Health and Social Care Finance, Digital and Governance Directorate*
• Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate*
• Mental Health Directorate*
• People, Appointments and Governance*
• Population Health Directorate*
• Primary Care Directorate*
• Social Care and National Care Service Development* (for relevance, see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/findings-of-the-boardman-review)

Net-Zero

• Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
• Energy and Climate Change Directorate
• Environment and Forestry Directorate
• Marine Directorate
• Offshore Wind Directorate

Scottish Exchequer

• Budget and Public Spending Directorate*
• Fiscal Sustainability and Exchequer Development Directorate
• Internal Audit and Assurance Directorate*
• Tax and Revenues Directorate*

* All areas create, collect, process, disclose information (personal data as well as non-personal information). Records management (RM) is therefore a key component of every DG. There are, however, areas of activity with particularly critical RM activities/responsibilities both from a legal and regulatory compliance, as well as from a P&E risk perspective.

These have been highlighted here to illustrate the breadth of the challenge in building a comprehensive and consistent framework of rules and behaviours, as well as the risk of not doing so.