Corporate and Business Plans

Transport Scotland will prepare a draft strategic or corporate plan every 3 years, reflecting its independence from the SG, setting out its strategic aims, objectives and targets over that period, for consideration by the Scottish Ministers. When a new plan is to be prepared, the Chief Executive or their delegate will liaise with the Portfolio AO to agree the key points to be addressed and the timetable for preparation and review. The final, agreed version of the strategic or corporate plan will be published on the Transport Scotland website.

The corporate plan will include Transport Scotland’s:

• purpose and principal aims
• contribution to the national outcomes set out in the National Performance Framework, the Programme for Government and Scotland’s Economic Strategy in collaboration with the SG and other public bodies
• analysis of the environment in which it operates
• key objectives and associated key performance targets for the period of the plan, and the strategy for achieving those objectives
• indicators against which its performance can be judged
• details of planned efficiencies, describing how better value for money will be achieved, including through collaboration and shared services
• other key points agreed with the Portfolio AO as described above

The corporate plan will inform the development of a separate business plan for each financial year, which will include key targets and milestones for the year immediately ahead, aligned to the NPF, and be linked to budgeting information so that, where possible, resources allocated to achieve specific objectives can be identified. Transport Scotland will send a copy of the annual business plan to the Portfolio AO before the start of the relevant financial year.