Parliamentary questions

Jackie Baillie

9,397 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.

6 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of how its strategic supplier risk-management policy operates.

Answer · Derek Mackay: The Scottish Government has developed the Procurement Journey, a web-based collection of tools/processes to support it and the public sector community in Scotland including central government, local authorities, National Health bodies, Universities and Colleg…

6 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government which bodies have been its strategic suppliers in each year since 2007-08.

Answer · Derek Mackay: The Scottish Government have contracted with a large number of suppliers over the past 10 years and a large number of contracts have expired since 2007-8. The current list of suppliers providing services/goods to the core Scottish Government where we are im…

6 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) private companies and (b) SMEs have supplied goods and services to each of its departments in each year since 1999, broken down by the (i) number and (ii) total value of the contracts.

Answer · Derek Mackay: 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…

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12919 by Derek Mackay on 6 December 2017, how many of the invoices that it has received in each year since 1999 have not been paid within 30 days of receipt at all stages of the (a) prime- and (b) sub-contract chain, broken down by the total value o…

Answer · Derek Mackay: The Scottish Government no longer holds data going back as far as 1999 and does not have this information at all stages of the prime and sub-contract chain. We have provided in the following table, payment performance for those invoices that were not paid wit…

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many subcontractors have requested to join each project bank account, including for tier (a) 2 and (b) 3; how many requests were refused, and how many did not request to join, broken down by reason for doing so.

Answer · Derek Mackay: To date, no public bodies to which Scottish Government’s project bank account (PBA) policy applies have yet completed the award of a contract containing a PBA.

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government for how many operational cycles has each project bank account has been (a) operational and (b) not operational.

Answer · Derek Mackay: To date, no public bodies to which Scottish Government’s project bank account (PBA) policy applies have yet completed the award of a contract containing a PBA.

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of subcontractor contract value has been paid through each project bank account.

Answer · Derek Mackay: To date, no public bodies to which Scottish Government’s project bank account (PBA) policy applies have yet completed the award of a contract containing a PBA.

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what the total value of payment to contractors has been for each project bank account, and how many (a) payments have been made and (b) contractors have been paid.

Answer · Derek Mackay: To date, no public bodies to which Scottish Government’s project bank account (PBA) policy applies have yet completed the award of a contract containing a PBA.

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what the date of the main contractor’s submission of a payment application to the commissioning body has been for each project bank account (PBA); on what date the commissioning body (a) intimated the amount of each payment and (b) deposited each payment into the PBA, and when each contr…

Answer · Derek Mackay: To date, no public bodies to which Scottish Government’s project bank account (PBA) policy applies have yet completed the award of a contract containing a PBA.

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12919 by Derek Mackay on 6 December 2017, by what date it will publish the annual procurement report under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.

Answer · Derek Mackay: 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…

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12919 by Derek Mackay on 6 December 2017, how the "other public bodies" that are referred to in project bank account (PBA) guidance, are encouraged to use PBAs.

Answer · Derek Mackay: The Scottish Government implementation model for project bank accounts (PBAs) facilitates wider uptake alongside which there is a range of stakeholder engagement measures and events to encourage “other public bodies” to use them. Four such bodies have advised…

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12919 by Derek Mackay on 6 December 2017, what its position is on introducing project bank accounts for all public projects.

Answer · Derek Mackay: While the Scottish Government has no current plans to introduce project bank accounts for all public projects, my answer to question S5W-14025 on 6 February 2018 stated that we will review the thresholds for works contracts in the light of prevailing practice…

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12919 by Derek Mackay on 6 December 2017, how many times each year (a) the supply chain member has elected not to participate in and (b) a main contractor has excluded a supply chain member from a project bank account arrangement, broken down by rea…

Answer · Derek Mackay: To date, no public bodies to which Scottish Government’s project bank account (PBA) policy applies have yet completed the award of a contract containing a PBA.

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12919 by Derek Mackay on 6 December 2017, how many project bank accounts have been set up each year, and how many have been (a) not completed and (b) breached.

Answer · Derek Mackay: To date, no public bodies to which Scottish Government’s project bank account (PBA) policy applies have yet completed the award of a contract containing a PBA. Eleven such contracts with a current estimated total value of £354m will be awarded with a PBA over…

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the invoices for goods and services that have been supplied to each of its departments by (a) private companies and (b) SMEs in each year since 1999 has been paid on time.

Answer · Derek Mackay: 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 S…

5 Feb 2018 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many public project subcontractors have been declined by each project bank account.

Answer · Derek Mackay: To date, no public bodies to which Scottish Government’s project bank account (PBA) policy applies have yet completed the award of a contract containing a PBA.