Scottish Government Governance and Communities Directorates
The Scottish Government Governance & Communities Directorates are a group of civil service Directorates in the Scottish Government created by a December 2010 re-organisation.[1]
The individual directorates within the over-arching Governance & Communities Directorates report to the Director-General, Paul Gray.[2]
Ministers
There is no direct relationship between Ministers and the Directorates. However, the activities of the Directorates include those under the purview of the Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure and Capital Investment, Alex Neil MSP.
Directorates
The over-arching Scottish Government Directorates were preceded by similar structures called "Departments" that no longer exist (although the word is still sometimes used in this context).[3] As an over-arching unit, the Governance & Communities Directorates incorporate a number of individual Directorates entitled:
- Strategy & Performance
- International & Constitution
- Digital
- HR & Organisational Development
- Local Government & Third Sector
- Housing & Regeneration, Culture and Commonwealth Games
- Built Environment
- Planning & Evironmental Appeals
- Legal Services
- The Office of the Scottish Parliamentary Counsel.[2]
The individual directorates are headed by deputy directors. Yvonne Strachan is the deputy director for the Third Sector for example.[4]
References
- ^ "Paul Gray, Director-General Rural Affairs, Environment and Services". Scottish Government. Retrieved 7 May 2011. This notice refers to the transfer of the DG of the Scottish Government Environment Directorates in December 2010, and thus indirectly to this re-organisation.
- ^ a b "Directorates" Scottish Government. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
- ^ "Reporting on 100 Days: Moving Scotland forward" Scottish Government. Retrieved 15 August 2009. "A new structure for Scotland's Government has been put in place, transforming the Departmental structure, moving from 9 Heads of Department, to a Strategic Board with the Permanent Secretary and five Directors General (DG), with each DG having responsibility for driving one of the Government's strategic objectives. Directors-General focus on the performance of the whole organisation against the Cabinet's agenda. The new structure means that the old Scottish Executive Departments no longer exist. Instead, each DG supports and manages a number of Directors, with these Directorates leading, presenting and developing policy for Ministers."
- ^ Senscot.
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