Holyrood Strategy Scotland
- Holyrood Strategy was launched with aplomb at Edinburgh's New Club earlier this month by the venerable Lord Fraser of Carmyllie. Unfortunately, it had already lost one director and risks losing another from its complement of four. Michael Kelly, the erstwhile chief executive and former Lord Provost of Glasgow, said cryptically: "It was pencilled in that I was a director, but I wasn't actually a director." Anyway, Mr Kelly (alias Miles Better from his time as Lord Provost) abandoned ship because of the "perceived conflict of interest" between a lobby job and an ambition to be a member of the Scottish parliament. Mark Whittet, another director of Holyrood Strategy and a press officer at British Energy, is thought to have been contemplating a similar move, though neither he nor Holyrood Strategy nor his present employer would comment.[1]
- The agency's other directors are Lord Fraser, the Conservative Party's deputy leader in the House of Lords, Charles Brodie, a Liberal Democrat councillor and director of software company Twinsoft, and Mark Whittet, executive director of news events planner MacNews, which will be integrated within Holyrood Strategy. The agency does not have any clients as yet.[2]
FoI consultation response
- Holyrood Strategy asked for the public and diary engagements of Scottish Ministers to be published each week listing in advance the schedule of forthcoming meetings.[3]
People
- Charles Brodie
- Julia Clarke
- William Drummond
- Peter Fraser
- James Sempill
- Mark Whittet Director 29.05.2000
- Michael Kelly, former Chief Executive, resigned shortly after launch in 1998 [4]
Notes
- ↑ The Scotsman July 25, 1998, Saturday BUSINESS DIARY BYLINE: Louise Nevill SECTION: Pg. 25
- ↑ PR Week BYLINE: By SOPHIE BARKER July 17, 1998
- ↑ Scottish Executive SUMMARY OF RESPONSES TO THE CONSULTATION PAPER "AN OPEN SCOTLAND: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, A CONSULTATION"
- ↑ Kelly quits lobbying for a political career by SOPHIE BARKER PR Week UK 17-Jul-98
