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It used emergency procurement regulations to award contracts without competition, and it reduced its usual governance arrangements. Between March 2020 and June 2021, NSS awarded 78 contracts, worth £340 million, to companies that provided PPE.
Had you asked us at the start of the pandemic, in March or April, whether we anticipated completing all of the 2019-20 audits by this point, I do not know that we would have.
Those steps are a vital part of the action that we have taken towards achieving the vision that was set out in the race equality framework. On 20 March 2020, we published “Race Equality Action Plan: year two progress update”, and a final year report will be published in 2021.
The next phase, which will be from the end of July right through to the end of the financial year in March 2021, will be much more important in tackling the backlog.
At our previous consideration of the petition in March, we agreed to write to the Scottish Government to ask how the petitioner can be part of its work on shared spaces.
Equalities and Human Rights Committee 15 March 2019 Equalities and Human Rights Committee 15 March 2019Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the seventh meeting in 2019 of the Equal...