Gender balance and register of interests of board members

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The Ferret Media Ltd

Dear West Lothian College,

Please treat this as a freedom of information request.

In November 2015 The First Minister made a commitment to work towards gender balance on all public boards in Scotland.

Please could you supply me with the following information?

1. How many women are now on the board of your organisation and how many people of other genders are there?

2. Is the current Chairperson (or person with an equivalent role) a woman or someone of another gender?

3. What is the current median FTE pay for men and women in the organisation?

In addition, I would be grateful if you could provide me with the following information about board members.

4. Please supply the names of everyone currently on the board along with their registers of interest and the date that their register was last updated.
5. Please supply details of any payments made to any of the board members in the last 12 months, and a summary of the purpose of each payment.

Please do not send the requested information in pdf format files. I would prefer to receive the requested information by email in a machine readable format such as MS Excel.


I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours faithfully,

Alastair Tibbitt
The Ferret Media Ltd

FOI, West Lothian College

Dear Mr Tibbitt

I acknowledge receipt of your FOI request. We will look into this and get back to you in due course.

Kind regards

Sandra Callan
on behalf of
Jennifer McLaren, Vice Principal, Finance and Corporate Services
West Lothian College

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Sandra Callan, West Lothian College

[Subject only] FW: Freedom of Information request - Gender balance and register of interests of board members

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FOI, West Lothian College

 

Dear Mr Tibbitt

 

Further to your FOI request dated 20 March please see below the response
from West Lothian College.

 

 

1. How many women are now on the board of your organisation and how many
people of other genders are there?  9 female/9 males

 

2. Is the current Chairperson (or person with an equivalent role) a woman
or someone of another gender? Male

 

3. What is the current median FTE pay for men and women in the
organisation?

 

Median Male hourly rate £22.15

Median Female hourly rate £15.08

 

4. Please supply the names of everyone currently on the board along with
their registers of interest and the date that their register was last
updated.

 

Alex Linkston (chair)

Sue Cook

Simon Ashpool

Thomas Bates

Elaine Cook

Jackie Galbraith

Frank Gribben

Lynne Hollis

Richard Lockhart

Iain McIntosh

Colin Miller

Moira Niven

Sue Stahly

Jeremy Miles

Julia Simpson (Staff member)

Neil Sinclair (Staff member)

Jeanette Dobson (Student Association President)

Kirsti Clark (Student Association Vice President)

 

The register of interests is published on the college website- link below

 

[1]https://www.west-lothian.ac.uk/media/359...

 

The register of interests was last updated in February 2021

 

5. Please supply details of any payments made to any of the board members
in the last 12 months, and a summary of the purpose of each payment.

 

Only payments made were monthly salary costs to the chair as the post is
remunerated.

 

 

Please also see link below - Scottish Information Commissioner’s contact
details for their appeal service:

[2]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

 

Kind regards

 

Jennifer McLaren

Vice Principal, Finance and Corporate Services

 

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2. http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal