First Minister and Equal Pay



Here's a freedom of information (FoI) request I sent earlier today to Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

Nicola is a local Glasgow MSP and made her personal position very clear last year when she said at the SNP's annual conference:

"Conference

"It may take us a bit of time to fix Labour’s mess, but I make this promise today.

"Fix it we will.

"The injustice suffered by low paid women in this city will be put right.

"Equal pay for equal work, denied for too long, will be delivered by the SNP."


Glasgow's councillors have the opportunity tomorrow to make good on these words and hopefully they will do so on a cross-party basis because, as the Court of Session has made clear - Glasgow's current pay arrangements are 'unfit for purpose'.

And that's exactly what Action 4 Equality Scotland has been saying for the past 10 years.

So let's put the past behind us, unite around the principle of 'equal pay for work of equal value' and get down to the business of putting things right.



16 January 2018


Nicola Sturgeon
First Minister of Scotland



Dear First Minister
FOISA Request

I would like to make the following request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. 

1) Please provide the details of all local councils in Scotland who applied to the Scottish Government for 'additional borrowing consents' to help meet the backpay costs of their outstanding equal pay claims?

2) Please provide a breakdown of all applications approved by the Scottish Government, the sums of money involved for each council and an explanation of any individual applications that were rejected?

I look forward to your reply and would be grateful if you could respond to me by e-mail at: markirvine@compuserve.com
Kind regards




Mark Irvine 


  

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