Senior Management Team Meeting - Minutes - 28 June 2022

Attendees

Chair

Hugh Gillies - Director

AMFC

Frances Pacitti (FP) – Director

BAAT

Bettina Sizeland (BS) – Director

Luke Macauley (LMc) - Active Travel Transformation Project and Policy Manager

FCS

Kerry Twyman (KT) – Director

Danny Chalmers (DC) – Head of Communications

LCE

Stuart Greig – Director

Major Projects

Lawrence Shackman (LS) – Director

Rail

Bill Reeve (BR) - Director

Roads

Stewart Leggett (SL) – Director

TSA

Fiona Brown (FB) – Director

Anne Martin (AM) - Head of Transport Strategy & Coordination

Secretariat

Gillian McCole (GM) – Head of Chief Executive Office

Pamela Yorke (PY) – Head of Secretariat

Steven Wyllie (SW) – Corporate Governance Manager

General Update

Directors provided an update on all areas of Transport Scotland business over the last month.  This included roads, rail, ferries and finance.

Finance

KT provided a general update on the organisations financial position

Risk Update

KT discussed the current Corporate Risk Register.  Each risk was discussed and any changes were marked for discussion at the next Risk Management Group meeting.

Correspondence

SW discussed correspondence figures and outlined that there continues to be an increase in FoI activity which additional resource are being moved to help manage.  Overall position of all correspondence is in line with year on year figures.

Corporate Update

SW discussed the staff notice around document management and ensuring that all information is stored correctly and kept for appropriate periods.

SW also discussed the current status of the business plan and that directorates will be asked for quarter 1 updates this week.

Constitution Update

An update was given on today’s announcement by the FM.

Hybrid working

SG discussed the hybrid working paper with Directors.  This paper will act as a blueprint to integrate hybrid working into Transport Scotland.

Active Travel

BS discussed updates on active travel including its steering group, future funding, guiding principles.

LMc gave an active travel transformation presentation.

The Senior Management Team agreed to decide on any actions at a future dedicated meeting.

AOB

No other business was tabled.