Public call for evidence
Gàidhlig
The call for evidence is closed.
We have been commissioned by the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) to undertake a review of Scottish Parliamentary allowances.
Details of the remit of the review can be found on this website, as can information on the membership of the panel.
Our review is taking a ‘first principles’ approach to the resources and support Members require to perform their duties within the Parliament as well as engaging with their constituents.
To help inform this work, we invited written evidence with views on any aspect of the allowances necessary for Members to fulfil their duties.
Our review will look at the resources and support Members require to perform their duties within the Parliament and to their constituents effectively. The review covers all three of the existing allowance categories:
The Members’ Allowances Scheme
The Party Leaders’ Allowances Scheme, and
The Equipment and Furniture Scheme.
Details of these schemes can be found on the Scottish Parliament website at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/MSPAllowances/index.htm
This information below outlines how the Review Panel dealt with any information sent in response to calls for evidence and any subsequent correspondence.
Policy on treatment of written evidence, published August 2007.
Please note the call for evidence is now closed.
We will publish relevant evidence that is sent to us on our website.
Therefore, if you wish your evidence to be treated as confidential, or for your evidence to be published anonymously, please contact the Secretariat to the Review Panel, before you submit your evidence.
We will require compelling reasons to treat evidence as confidential.
There are a few situations where we do not publish all the evidence sent to us. This may be for practical reasons or for legal reasons.
Examples of practical reasons are where we receive a large number of submissions in very similar terms. In that case, we would normally publish only a list of the names of people who have submitted evidence.
In addition, there may be a few situations where we may not choose to publish your evidence or have to edit it before publication for legal reasons.
When we publish your evidence, we will not publish your signature or your personal contact information (like your home telephone number or your home address).
We may also have to edit information which can identify another living person who has not specifically given their consent to have information about them made public, but in these situations, the Review Panel will have access to the full text of your evidence, even if it has not been published in full.
If you consider that evidence that you plan to submit may raise issues concerning the Data Protection Act, please contact the Secretary to the Review Panel before you submit your evidence.
Potentially defamatory material
The Review Panel will not publish defamatory statements or material.
If we think your submission contains potentially defamatory material, typically, we will return it to you with an invitation to substantiate the comments or remove them.
In these circumstances if the evidence is returned to us and it still contains material which we consider may be defamatory, it may not be considered by the Review Panel and it may have to be destroyed.
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