Enterprise, Environment and Innovation Directorates

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The Scottish Government Enterprise, Environment and Innovation Directorates are a group of civil service Directorates in the Scottish Government created by a December 2010 and then a June 2014 re-organisation.[1]

The individual Directorates within the overarching Enterprise, Environment and Innovation Directorates report to the Director-General, Graeme Dickson.[2]

A general concordat, drawn up in 1999, set out agreed frameworks for co-operation between the pre-existing Environment Directorates and the United Kingdom government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs[3] and there is another specifically on the subject of genetically modified organisms.[4]

Ministers

There is no direct relationship between Ministers and the Directorates. However, the activities of the Directorates include those under the purview of the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Richard Lochhead MSP, whose responsibilities include: agriculture, fisheries and rural development including aquaculture and forestry, environment and natural heritage, land reform, water quality regulation and sustainable development. He is supported by the Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Paul Wheelhouse MSP. John Swinney MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth and Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, also have responsibility for some of the work of these Directorates.

Directorates

The overarching Scottish Government Directorates were preceded by similar structures called "Departments" that no longer exist (although the word is still sometimes used in this context).[5] As an overarching unit, the Enterprise, Environment & Innovation Directorates incorporate a number of individual Directorates entitled:

Agencies and other bodies

The Directorates are responsible for one agency:

The Directorates also sponsor several non-departmental public bodies including:

The Rural Development Council was set up in 2008 to advise the Cabinet Secretary on rural affairs and to "consider how best rural Scotland can contribute to the creation of a more successful country, through increasing sustainable economic growth".[6]

History

Prior to the creation of the Enterprise and Environment Directorates in 2010, many of their responsibilities were undertaken by the Scottish Government Environment Directorates and prior to 2007 by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD).

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Paul Gray, Director-General Rural Affairs, Environment and Services". Scottish Government. Retrieved 7 May 2011. This notice refers to the transfer of the DG of the Scottish Government Environment Directorates in December 2010, and thus indirectly to this re-organisation.
  2. ↑ "Director-General Enterprise & Environment". Scottish Government. 7 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Devolution: Main Concordat between the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Scottish Executive. DEFRA. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
  4. ↑ "Concordat on the Implementation of Directive 2001/18/EC and Regulation 1946/2003/EC" Scottish Government. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  5. ↑ "Reporting on 100 Days: Moving Scotland forward" Scottish Government. Retrieved 15 August 2009. "A new structure for Scotland's Government has been put in place, transforming the Departmental structure, moving from nine Heads of Department, to a Strategic Board with the Permanent Secretary and six Directors General (DG), with each DG having responsibility for driving one of the Government's strategic objectives. Directors-General focus on the performance of the whole organisation against the Cabinet's agenda. The new structure means that the old Scottish Executive Departments no longer exist. Instead, each DG supports and manages a number of Directors, with these Directorates leading, presenting and developing policy for Ministers."
  6. ↑ "Scotland Rural Development Council" Scottish Government. Retrieved 27 July 2009.

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