Fair Trade Purchasing 2023/2024

I am seeking some data regarding your annual Fair Trade purchasing.

Scottish Fair Trade is compiling information on Fair Trade purchasing within public bodies, institutions, and organisations across Scotland for the 2023-24 edition of its report into Fair Trade expenditure and policy commitments within Scotland’s public sector. To understand how  procurement policies were previously reported on and to read our recommendations, please review our last edition here.

Can you kindly provide data on your organisation’s annual spend on fair trade goods across the April 2023 – March 2024 financial year?

Please include the below information, and please return the data in the attached template:

Vendor name
Whether they were contracted/non-contracted
A description of item(s) purchased
The total value per order
Items purchased for resale (if applicable)

Please also provide your general policy on the procurement of fairly and ethically traded goods and services, in line with section 15(5)(b)(v) of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, if it is hosted online, please kindly share the link.

I am aware that, given potential limitations, you may only be able to capture spend where purchasers have specifically used such terms as “fair” and “trade”, “fairtrade” or “fairly” and “traded” in their requisitions, and so items where buyers have used catalogue item numbers will not be reflected in the data. These considerations will be acknowledged in the report.

Section 17 of FOISA provides that where an authority does not hold information requested then it should notify the requester to that effect.

We are unable to provide the information for 2023/2024 as it is no longer held. The information relates to a previous contractor, who no longer has the contract, and the information is not held anymore.

Please find attached a copy of our Procurement Policy as requested.

Procurement Policy (234 KB)