Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-29028 by Shona Robison on 9 September 2024, whether it will provide the specific number of occasions that it has met with the leader of Orkney Islands Council in each year since 2021.
Details of every external meeting all Ministers have undertaken since 2016 can be found here: https://www.gov.scot/collections/ministerial-engagements-travel-and-gifts/. This currently shows engagements up until May of this year, however information on engagements after this point will be published in due course, as per the Scottish Government’s commitment to do so, which is set out in the Scottish Ministerial Code.
It is also worth noting that although the names of specific councils or council leaders may not appear in records of certain engagements, the First Minister, previous First Ministers and other Ministers have engaged with various council leaders at COSLA Annual Conferences and other conferences and events that involve council leaders since 2021.