(a) which and (b) what percentage of its (i) currently allocated contracts and (ii) contracts allocated in the last six years contain or ha…

The Scottish Government have implemented community benefit clauses in various contracts. For example, the Scottish Government’s Ready for Business programme is a public social partnership pilot which aims to support social enterprises to increase their trading with commercial businesses through the delivery of goods and services.
The Scottish Government do not currently have a central record containing information on community benefit clauses used in individual contracts, or the percentage of contracts containing community benefit clauses.
We intend to use the forthcoming Procurement Reform Bill to introduce a statutory requirement that public sector bodies include community benefit clauses in all new major public contracts and that those in receipt of major public contracts publish their commitments and target updates on training, apprenticeships and performance.
When implementing the Procurement Reform Bill, the Scottish Government intends to hold a record of community benefit information in order to identify which major Scottish Government contracts contain community benefit clauses.