Scottish Government hospitality services for 2020-21 broken down by directorate: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for the full cost to the Scottish Government for hospitality services for the financial year
2020-2021 broken down by the following directorates:
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Budget and Public Spending Directorate
Chief Economist Directorate
Chief Medical Officer Directorate
Chief Nursing Officer Directorate
Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland Directorate
Children and Families Directorate
Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Constitution Directorate
Corporate Transformation and Workplace Directorate
Covid Inquiries Response Directorate
Covid Recovery and Public Service Reform Directorate
Culture and Major Events Directorate
Digital Directorate
Digital Health and Care Directorate
EU Directorate
Early Learning and Childcare Directorate
Economic Development Directorate
Economic Strategy and Fair Work Directorate
Education Reform Directorate
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Environment and Forestry Directorate
Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate
External Affairs Directorate
Financial Management Directorate
Fiscal Sustainability and Exchequer Development Directorate
Health Workforce Directorate
Health and Social Care Finance and Governance
Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate
Internal Audit and Assurance Directorate
International Trade and Investment Directorate
Justice Directorate
Learning Directorate
Legal Services (Solicitor to the Scottish Government)
Lifelong Learning and Skills Directorate
Local Government and Housing Directorate
Marine Directorate
Mental Health Directorate
Offshore Wind Directorate
Parliamentary Counsel Office
People Directorate
People, Appointments and Governance
Performance, Delivery and Resilience Directorate
Population Health Directorate
Primary Care Directorate
Propriety and Ethics Directorate
Safer Communities Directorate
Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate
Social Care and National Care Service Development
Social Security Directorate
Strategy Directorate
Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
Tax and Revenues Directorate
Ukraine Resettlement Directorate

Response

The table below summarises the value of hospitality costs on the Scottish Government’s financial reporting system for each requested directorate. Your requested list of directorates reflects the Scottish Government’s current directorate structure, which has changed since 2020/21. Therefore, any directorates in your requested list which have been created since 2020/21 are listed in the table below, but will have no costs recorded against them as they did not exist at this time.

Hospitality Costs by Directorate	2020/21 (£s)
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate	517
Budget and Public Spending Directorate	0
Chief Economist Directorate	2
Chief Medical Officer Directorate	3
Chief Nursing Officer Directorate	18
Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland Directorate	1,879
Children and Families Directorate	2,699
Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate	43,181
Constitution Directorate	96
Corporate Transformation and Workplace Directorate	4,016
Covid Inquiries Response Directorate	0
Covid Recovery and Public Service Reform Directorate	2,564
Culture and Major Events Directorate	245
Digital Directorate	2,631
Digital Health and Care Directorate	0
Early Learning and Childcare Directorate	96
Economic Development Directorate	1,610
Economic Strategy and Fair Work Directorate	0
Education Reform Directorate	0
Energy and Climate Change Directorate	12
Environment and Forestry Directorate	0
Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate	254
EU Directorate	115
External Affairs Directorate	371
Financial Management Directorate	0
Fiscal Sustainability and Exchequer Development Directorate	0
Health and Social Care Finance and Governance	0
Health Workforce Directorate	10,628
Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate	0
Internal Audit and Assurance Directorate	0
International Trade and Investment Directorate	568
Justice Directorate	868
Learning Directorate	0
Legal Services (Solicitor to the Scottish Government)	0
Lifelong Learning and Skills Directorate	85
Local Government and Housing Directorate	921
Marine Directorate	3,082
Mental Health Directorate	5
Offshore Wind Directorate	0
Parliamentary Counsel Office	0
People Directorate	10,645
Performance, Delivery and Resilience Directorate	0
Population Health Directorate	19
Primary Care Directorate	215
Propriety and Ethics Directorate	0
Safer Communities Directorate	39
Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate	143
Social Care and National Care Service Development	4
Social Security Directorate	1,405
Strategy Directorate	0
Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate	21
Tax and Revenues Directorate	0
Ukraine Resettlement Directorate	0

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