Corporate

ICT Expenditure for FSS

Request

You requested information about our ICT expenditure, as broken down in the attached template, including:

expenditure from all parts of our organisation (central services and business units);

as well as our own organisation, expenditure for any subsidiary organisations that fall within the scope of our accounts; and

both revenue (or operating) expenditure and capital expenditure.

Response

The information requested is in Annex 1. All lines with "SCOTS" in the comments box refer to the £213,005 charge from Scottish Government IT to cover the cost of the SCOTS network services. Annex 2 shows the breakdown cost of the charge from Scottish Government.