Question reference: S5W-25430
- Asked by: Tom Arthur, MSP for Renfrewshire South, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 19 September 2019
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Current status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 20 September 2019
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the implementation of Fair Work First.
Answer
As set out in the Fair Work Action Plan we are taking a phased approach to the implementation of Fair Work First. Fair Work criteria is already being applied to a range of Scottish Enterprise business support grants; in the Scottish Government procurement process for a £400 million public contract for facilities management services; and to grants issuing through the Scottish Government’s Fair Work budget for 2019-20.
Today we have published in SPICe (Bib Number 60992) an implementation plan setting out the further steps we will take to ensure that, by the end of this Parliament, and wherever it is appropriate to do so, we will:
- extend Fair Work criteria to every type of grant, funding stream and business support budget open to us, and
- extend the range of Scottish Government and public sector contracts that Fair Work criteria will apply to.