Corporate

Expenditure on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity

Request

Your request was about the following information:

‘ Please can your organisation provide in Excel CSV format, the following information:

a) The number of roles in your association (expressed in numbers of FTE), that are mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality, diversity, or inclusivity. For example, this could include    (amongst other guises) “EDI officers” or “diversity and inclusion project managers” but would not include general HR managers.

b) Either a) the pay band of each of these roles, or b) the combined total salaries for these roles. Whichever measure is more in accordance with your data preferences.

c) In the past 12 months the number of staff days across your organisation which have been committed to attending equality training programmes, whether internally run or with external consultants. (staff days = duration of the training programme multiplied by the number of staff in attendance for the course).

d) The contractual cost of any consultants hired, in the past twelve months, to provide any external training or advice on issues of diversity, equality, or inclusivity.

e) In the past twelve months, the number of staff days committed to attending conferences relating mainly or exclusively to matters of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. (duration of conference multiplied by the number of staff in attendance).

f) The costs of attending these conferences.

g) Membership costs the organisation pays for participation in equality charters such as the Stonewall Equality Champions, or Diversity and Inclusion Workplace champions.'

Response

A

All HR colleagues in Food Standards Scotland are trained and experienced in equality, diversity and inclusivity matters. There is no single role that is mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality, diversity and inclusivity.

B

N/A

C

Food Standards Scotland has an ‘Inclusive Culture’ module that takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Food Standard Scotland employees that completed this module used approximately 21 hours in total.

D

Food Standards Scotland does not hold any records of the contractual cost of any consultants hired to provide any external training or advice on issues of diversity, equality, or inclusivity in the past twelve months.

E

Food Standards Scotland does not keep records of the number of staff days committed to attending conferences relating mainly or exclusively to matters of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the past twelve months.

F

N/A

G

Food Standards Scotland does not hold records of Membership costs the organisation pays for participation in equality charters such as the Stonewall Equality Champions, or Diversity and Inclusion Workplace champions.