Question reference: S6W-26049
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 11 March 2024
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Current status: Answered by Claire Baker (on behalf of the SPCB) on 25 March 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) how many meeting room bookings within the Scottish Parliament estate have been made in each of the last two years, broken down by those that were made by (a) ministers or ministerial staff, (b) SPCB staff, (c) non-ministerial MSPs or MSP staff and (d) anyone else.
Answer
There were 6983 meeting room bookings in 2022 and 8852 bookings in 2023.
For the purposes of this response these numbers have been adjusted to reflect bookings for meetings only. Bookings for activities such as MSP sponsored events, maintenance, broadcasting checks, set up times etc. were filtered out to leave the following totals:
5817 meetings in 2022 broken down as:
- ministers or ministerial staff 312
- SPCB staff, 4599
- non-ministerial MSPs or MSP staff * 835
- anyone else 71 (CPGs)
7505 meetings in 2023 broken down as:
- ministers or ministerial staff 964
- SPCB staff, 5343
- non-ministerial MSPs or MSP staff * 1060
- anyone else 138 (CPGs)
*It was not possible to identify non-ministerial MSPs as a separate group. Therefore, the category MSP/MSP staff includes Ministers acting in their capacity as an MSP and includes all Members who have been a Minister for all or part of each year.