Current status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 18 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will confirm the costs associated with the (a) production and (b) publication of its paper, Citizenship in an independent Scotland.
The external costs associated with the production and publication of the Building a New Scotland paper, ‘Citizenship in an independent Scotland’, are set out in the following table.
Costs | |||
Task | VAT % | VAT | Net Price |
Formatting and Online Publication (including HTML Web Conversation) | 20.00 | 594.51 | 2,972.53 |
Printed Copies | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,379.66 |
Summary Document | 20.00 | 66.83 | 334.14 |
Summary Document – Language Translations | 20.00 | 973.08 | 4,865.40 |
Summary Document – BSL Translations | 20.00 | 204.57 | 1,022.86 |
Summary Document – Audio Translation | 20.00 | 26.88 | 134.42 |
Summary Document – Easy Read Version | 20.00 | 173.59 | 867.96 |
Total (GBP) | 2,039.46 | 11,576.97 | |
Total including VAT (GBP) | 13,616.40 | ||
I am unable to provide a figure for the total production costs of Citizenship in an independent Scotland because in line with usual practice, details of individual tasks carried out by civil servants, including the number of hours spent on them, are not routinely recorded because there is no business need to do this.