Question reference: S6W-00182
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 24 May 2021
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Current status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 October 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its assessment is of the effectiveness of Scottish Enterprise’s human rights reputational risk assessments, as introduced from 2019 under the Customer Due Diligence procedure.
Answer
Our 2018 Guidance on Due Diligence: Human Rights sets out how the Scottish Government, our executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies should undertake appropriate due diligence on companies, including their human rights record, before entering into an investment relationship with them. Building on this, Scottish Enterprise’s Customer Due Diligence Procedure, introduced in 2019, sets out the process that it follows to undertake human rights due diligence checks on companies it works with. Such checks are based on a rigorous process and independent evidence. Scottish Enterprise is confident that it has acted in full accordance with this Procedure.