Current status: Answered by Jackson Carlaw (on behalf of the SPCB) on 26 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, further to the answer to question S6W-36629 by John Swinney on 3 April 2025 and the answer to question S6W-38203 by Ivan McKee on 11 June 2025, whether all ministers, including the First Minister, received new mandates from the Scottish Parliament's Pay and Pensions Team following the decision to equalise the MSP element of ministers' salaries with that of MSPs who are not currently serving ministers from 1 April 2025, and, if so, whether these mandates will be published.
In April 2025, the First Minister, Ministers, and
Law Officers received ministerial waiver mandate letters. As the mandates
contain data which is personal to the individuals concerned the Scottish
Parliament, as a data controller, will not publish them. It is a matter
for individuals to decide if they wish to publish information contained within
their own mandate letters.
The
SPCB publishes up to date information about salaries for MSP, Ministers, Law
Officers and Office Holders on its website.