Ask An Impertinent Question

Here are the original FOI questions that South Lanarkshire Council is refusing to answer - they won't seem particularly difficult or threatening to most people - most sensible people at least.

But the council refuses to explain the background to its 'in-house' Job Evaluation Scheme (JES) - when just about every other council in Scotland is happy to share this information.

Indeed elsewhere the details would be freely available to the council workforce - and as it's public money the council has been spending why all the secrecy?

So yet another appeal has gone off to the Scottish Information Commissioner.

Archie Strang
Chief Executive
South Lanarkshire Council
Almada Street
Hamilton
ML3 0AA

By e-mail

Dear Mr Strang

Freedom of Information Request

I would like to make the following enquiry under the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002.

I would like to know:

1. What were South Lanarkshire Council’s reasons for not adopting the nationally recommended COSLA (Gauge) Job Evaluation Scheme (JES)?

2. What was South Lanarkshire Council’s share of the £250,000 costs of producing the nationally recommended COSLA JES?

3. Who were the creators or authors of South Lanarkshire Council’s 555 Job Evaluation Scheme (JES)?

4. What payment did the creators/authors of South Lanarkshire Council’s 555 JES receive for their time and expertise?

5. What credentials did the creators/authors possess for developing South Lanarkshire Council’s 555 JES?

I look forward to hearing from you in due course

Kind regards


Mark Irvine