You can normally deliver letters to the Scottish Parliament by hand. If you wish to do so, please take your letters to the garage entrance to the Parliament building, which is at the bottom of Holyrood Road. (A map is available in the Visiting Holyrood section of our website).

At times of increased security, however, we may not be able to accept hand-delivered packages. If you wish to check before coming to the Parliament, please contact the Public Information Service.

The Scottish Parliament does not currently accept requests to hold events for commercial purposes. All events that take place at Holyrood must have a key link to the business and priorities of the Parliament and require sponsorship from an MSP, a committee or a Parliament office. More information about events is available on our website.

If you are interested in a student placement at the Scottish Parliament, you can contact our Personnel Office (jobs@scottish.parliament.uk) for an application pack.

MSPs are responsible for arranging their own student placement programmes and internships. Contact details for political parties and individual members can be found in the fact sheets on our website.

The Scottish Parliament logo, comprising the badge and the words 'The Scottish Parliament' and 'Pàrlamaid na h-Alba', is the property of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body and cannot be reproduced without its specific prior approval. More information can be found in the Logo Usage guidelines (pdf) on our website.

Recruitment opportunities within the Scottish Parliament are listed on our website whenever a new position becomes available. They are also advertised in the press. Please note that we are unable to hold notes of interest or CVs.

MSPs are responsible for employing their own researchers and constituency staff, and they have separate arrangements for recruitment. Contact details for political parties and individual members can be found in the fact sheets on our website.

If you are unhappy about the services or staff of the Scottish Parliament, our Complaints Procedures explain how you can make a formal complaint about these and provide links to the complaints form (available in online and in PDF versions).

If you wish to supply the Scottish Parliament with any goods or services, you can add your company’s details to our supplier database. This will ensure that you are notified of any tender exercises that may be of interest to you.

Information on our procurement policies and on how to register with our supplier database is available in the Procurement Services section of the website.

The staff of the Scottish Parliament are employed by the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB). The SPCB currently employs around 500 people. More information on how the Scottish Parliament is staffed and a link to an organisation chart are available in the Staff Organisation section of our website.

If you are looking for a photograph of an individual MSP, you should contact his or her office. Contact details for MSPs are available in the fact sheets on our website.

Requests for photographs of Cabinet Secretaries or Ministers should be addressed to the Scottish Government.

We are happy for external bodies to provide a link to the Scottish Parliament website, but we are not normally able to reciprocate. The limited links that we currently carry on our homepage and on our Education Service pages are to other parliaments, political parties represented in the Scottish Parliament and educational organisations or resources.

There is no central service within the Scottish Parliament for distributing emails to MSPs. If you wish to email a number of MSPs, you will have to contact them individually. A list of email addresses for all MSPs can be found in the fact sheets on our website.

It is possible to ask our mail room to distribute documents to a number of MSPs. Please place each letter or document in an envelope with the name of the relevant MSP on the outside; you can then post these as a single package. (If you wish to send a document to all MSPs, it is not necessary to put each one in a separate envelope, but please enclose 129 copies.) All such packages should be marked "Documents for distribution" and sent to the address below:

The Mail Room
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP

Unofficial Scottish Parliament tartans have been produced by various companies, but there is no official tartan recognised by the Scottish Parliament.

We do not have an in-house magazine for staff and MSPs or a notice board on which members of the public can display messages or adverts within the Scottish Parliament. We are also unable to circulate emails concerning non-parliamentary matters.

A range of images of the Scottish Parliament that can be downloaded are available on our website at Images - Latest. This page also provides information about the conditions under which these images can be used.

If you cannot find a suitable image among the selection on the website, please contact the Public Information Service.

There are five demountable flagpoles outside the public entrance to the Scottish Parliament building. Three of these are in constant use as the Union Flag, the Saltire and the European Union flag are flown throughout the year; the fourth and fifth flagpoles are put in place when required.

When heads of state, heads of government or officially invited guests visit, the appropriate flag of the visiting dignitary is flown from a flagpole. The appropriate flag is also flown on certain international days that are officially recognised by the Parliament such as Commonwealth Day and United Nations Day. The Royal Standard is flown during a visit by Her Majesty The Queen or during a state visit (that is, when a head of state visits and is accompanied by a member of the royal family).