SWestrans model publication scheme - The classes of information

The authority must publish information that it holds which falls within the following classes. Once published, information should be available for the current and previous two financial years. Where information has been updated or superseded, only the current version need be available (previous versions may be requested from the authority).

The Commissioner’s guidance accompanying this scheme provides lists of the types of information authorities are expected to publish under each class. The authority’s guide to Information should make clear what is available under each class.

Class 1: About SWestrans

Class description: Information about SWestrans, who we are, where to find us, how to contact us, how we are managed and our external relations.

Where you can access information for:

Class 2: How we deliver our functions and services

Class description: Information about our work, our strategy and policies for delivering functions and services and information for our service users.

Information on projects, including:

  • Dumfries Southern Bypass
  • Dumfries to M74 Motorway links
  • A75 Alignments
  • A709 Alignments
  • Transport Links to Thornhill
  • Transport Links to Eastriggs
  • West Coast Main Line
  • Demonstration Town (GoSmart Dumfries) progress

You can also access:

Class 3: How we take decisions and what we have decided

Class description: Information about the decisions we take; how we make decisions and how we involve others.

Decisions are made through board meetings.

The index of board meetings will have details of specific decisions and public consultations.

Class 4: What we spend and how we spend it

Class description: Information about our strategy for, and management of, financial resources (in sufficient detail to explain how we plan to spend public money and what has actually been spent).

All included in board papers and annual reports.

For example, capital expenditure programme, revenue budget monitoring report, and audit reports.

Class 5: How we manage our human, physical and information resources

Class description: Information about how we manage the human, physical and information resources of the authority.

Class 6: How we produce goods and services from external providers

Class description: Information about how we procure goods and services, and our contracts with external providers.

SWestrans procurement standing orders

Class 7: How we are performing

Class description: Information about how we perform as an organisation, and how well we deliver our functions and services.

Read our performance management framework.

Class 8: Our commercial publications

Class description: Information packaged and made available for sale on a commercial basis and sold at market value through a retail outlet for example, bookshop, museum or research journal.

SWestrans does not currently have any commercial publications.