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Creative Scotland’s Board has reviewed decisions on the Regular Funding Network and announced on 6 February 2018 that a further 5 organisations will now receive regular funding, including the Dunedin Consort.

The following table provides the number of suppliers and the number of SMEs who have supplied goods and services to core Scottish Government departments for Financial Years 2005-06 to 2016-17 based on data contained in the Scottish Procurement Information Hub. The Hub reports on spend by supplier and not by contract therefore cannot provide information relating to the number and total value of contracts as requested.

Data is provided for core Scottish Government departments only.

Data is taken from the Scottish Procurement Information Hub and is based on spend with core trade suppliers.

Core trade suppliers are suppliers with whom over £1,000 has been spent in a 12 month period, that have also been classed as a trading organisation or as a non-trade social care provider.

*Supplier size is based on number of employees where it is known.

**SMEs are defined as suppliers with less than 250 employees.

Data correct at February 2017.

The Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 requires a public body with significant procurement expenditure to prepare an annual procurement report as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each financial year.

These reports will form the basis of an annual report on procurement activity in Scotland to be published by Scottish Ministers. Financial year 2017-2018 will be the first full year subject to annual procurement reports under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.

Public bodies need to be given sufficient time to prepare and publish their individual annual procurement reports before the Scottish Government carries out a high-level analysis of these reports in preparation for the Scottish Ministers annual report on procurement activity in Scotland.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information broken down by department and it no longer holds data going back as far as 1999. It also does not analyse payments for goods and services to determine whether they have been paid to private companies or SMEs.

However, we have provided in the following table, payment performance data for those invoices that were paid on time, within 30 days of receipt, from April 2012 to date.

ScotRail’s performance is reported by railway industry periods (13 periods in a year) therefore the information is contained below in this format,

Over the last year the number of ScotRail services subject to skip-stopping was 5,980 trains and this equates to 0.78 percent (part of period 10 falls in the 2018 calendar year).

The member will be aware that the independent review underway will propose steps for improvement, and aim to reduce the number of incidents of skip-stopping.

The Scottish Government does not routinely hold skip stopping information at route level.

The member will be aware that an independent review of train service performance is underway which will propose steps for improvement, and aim to reduce the number of incidents of skip-stopping.

The ScotRail Franchise contract does not contain a commitment for ScotRail to routinely publish information on skip stopping.

However my officials at Transport Scotland will work with ScotRail to review the level of information that can be published.

I refer the member to the answer to question to S5W-14218 on 9 February 2018. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

I refer the member to the answer to question to S5W-14218 on
9 February 2018. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Benny Higgins is currently leading work to develop an Implementation Plan for a Scottish National Investment Bank. The Implementation Plan will provide recommendations on the scope and scale of the bank, as well as governance, capitalisation and state aid. The Plan will be published in late February.