Transparency index

Scottish Government FOI releases

21,864releases indexed
39,478attachments found
29.7avg calendar days
8,113partially withheld
2016-06-13oldest in sample
2026-06-12newest in sample

Outcomes

partially withheld 8,113 unclear 7,200 not held 3,069 released 1,537 already published 671 cost limit 607 clarification 349 withheld 241 transferred 77

Top Exemptions

s.38(1) 4931 s.20 4280 s.34(1) 3589 s.39(2) 3481 s.30 2878 s.17(1) 2774 s.25(1) 2381 s.10(4) 1987 s.11(2) 1571 s.29(1) 1175 s.2 1158 s.3 908

Timeline

2026-06 1 2026-05 410 2026-04 312 2026-03 217 2026-02 589 2026-01 479 2025-12 177 2025-11 263

Directorate Profiles

Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate 1,279 releases · 27.9 avg days Marine Directorate 967 releases · 29.6 avg days Energy and Climate Change Directorate 923 releases · 31.0 avg days Learning Directorate 861 releases · 34.4 avg days Economic Development Directorate 729 releases · 39.9 avg days Constitution Directorate 685 releases · 36.1 avg days Population Health Directorate 645 releases · 28.7 avg days People Directorate 633 releases · 25.8 avg days
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7,200 matching releases

Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence broken down by school: FOI release

You asked for an EXCEL or CSV spreadsheet showing Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence in the stages of P1, P4, P7, and S3 broken down by percentage of pupils in each SCHOOL in the following disciplines: Numeracy Literacy - Reading (English) Literacy - Writing (English) Literacy - Listening and Talking (English) ...

FOI unclear 75 score 10 working days correspondence 2 attachments
Published
2021-07-14
Reference
FOI/202100218310
Directorate
Learning Directorate
Topic
Education, Public sector

Total amount of money provided to Scottish football clubs: FOI release

Please can you tell me how much has been distributed to each of the 12 top flight Scottish football clubs in the SPFL premier league. Any correspondence you hold that any club has intimated they do not require the facility offered by the Scottish Government. And any recent (within the last week from the 12th June 2021)...

FOI unclear 75 score 18 working days correspondence 2 attachments
Published
2021-07-14
Reference
FOI/202100215652
Directorate
Population Health Directorate
Topic
Arts, culture and sport, Money and tax, Public sector

Transport Scotland ICT expenditure: FOI release

Information regarding ICT expenditure and included a spreadsheet detailing expenditure categories.

FOI unclear 50 score 10 working days correspondence
Published
2021-07-13
Reference
FOI/202100217828
Directorate
Topic
Money and tax, Public sector, Transport

Funding provided for laptops for school children: FOI release

1. How much money was provided to the Scottish government in 2020 to provide Scottish school children with laptops and/or broadband who did not have access to these during the pandemic? 2. Who provided these funds? 3. How many laptops and/or broadband were distributed? 4. How were these laptops distributed? 5. Is it kn...

FOI unclear 55 score 16 working days correspondence s.5 s.6 s.7
Published
2021-07-13
Reference
FOI/202100215611
Directorate
Learning Directorate
Topic
Education, Public sector

COVID-19 tests for arriving passengers via Corporate Travel Management (CTM) website: FOI release

"Please explain why the Scottish Government requires all Corona Virus Tests for arriving passengers to be booked through the Corporate Travel Management (CTM) website."

FOI unclear 50 score 10 working days correspondence contracts spending
Published
2021-07-13
Reference
FOI/202100217931
Directorate
Topic
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and other respiratory infections in Scotland, Health and social care, Public sector

Custom audience feature used in Facebook advertising campaigns: FOI release

If any Scottish Government advertising campaigns have made use of Facebook's custom audiences feature in order to target advertising and what data was uploaded to Facebook to create the audience?

FOI unclear 50 score 9 working days correspondence
Published
2021-07-12
Reference
FOI/202100217339
Directorate
Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Topic
Public sector, Work and skills

Funding provided to Fearless Glasgow: FOI release

1. A list of qualifying acceptance criteria for defining microaggression and the legal ramifications of such action under Scottish law (i.e. what happens to those reported and what is their subsequent legal right to respond). 2. I seek details of all taxpayer funding in this respect (SG funding of Culture Shift softwar...

FOI unclear 55 score 15 working days correspondence s.17(1)
Published
2021-07-09
Reference
FOI/202100215907
Directorate
Topic
Education, Equality and rights, Public sector

Breakdown of purchased single-use plastic cutlery: FOI release

1. A breakdown of the costs and quantities of single-use plastic cups purchased in each of the last three years via the Catering and FM Services contracts. 2. A breakdown of the costs and quantities of single-use plastic cutlery purchased in each of the last three years via the Catering and FM Services contracts.

FOI unclear 55 score 21 working days over deadline correspondence contracts spending s.2
Published
2021-07-09
Reference
FOI/202100210077
Directorate
Topic
Environment and climate change, Money and tax, Public sector

Breakdown of external recruitment campaign for senior policy manager: FOI release

For post IRC85923E - 1. Total number of applicants. 2. Split Internal v External applicants. 3. Number of External applicants aged over 50. Split of successful applicants Internal v External, including number over 50 in each category. Noting: in respect of this request, Internal includes contractors - fixed term or any...

FOI unclear 55 score 17 working days correspondence contracts s.2 s.3
Published
2021-07-09
Reference
FOI/202100212881
Directorate
People Directorate
Topic
Equality and rights, Public sector

Total amount of electric cars used by Ministers: FOI release

How many of ministers in your government including yourself (First Minister) have access to electric vehicles, how many are being used at moment, if any how are they financed, do ministers pay for themselves or through government scheme, who is funding the installation of thousands of charging points.

FOI unclear 50 score 15 working days correspondence ministers contracts spending
Published
2021-07-09
Reference
FOI/202100213731
Directorate
Topic
Environment and climate change, Public sector, Transport

Enforcement notices served on fish farm sites: EIR release

Information with respect to specific correspondence from Mowi in relation to enforcement notices served on both the Grey Horse Channel and Colonsay fish farm sites. In communications with you, ahead of receiving your request, it was confirmed that the enforcement notices relating to both of these sites had been compli...

FOI/EIR unclear 80 score 21 working days over deadline correspondence s.11(2) s.34(1) 2 attachments
Published
2021-07-09
Reference
FOI/202100212276
Directorate
Marine Directorate
Topic
Marine and fisheries, Public sector

Payments made to Stonewall Equality Limited: FOI release

1. What payments, if any, you made to Stonewall (officially Stonewall Equality Limited) in the financial year 2019/20. 2. What payments, if any, you made to Stonewall (officially Stonewall Equality Limited) in the financial year 2020/21. 3. What payments, if any, you expect to make to Stonewall (officially Stonewall Eq...

FOI unclear 55 score 27 working days over deadline correspondence spending s.25(1)
Published
2021-07-08
Reference
FOI/202100212165
Directorate
Topic
Equality and rights, Public sector

Quality assurance processes used by each local authority area: FOI release

You asked for details of the quality assurance process in use by each council following the release of our report “National Review of local authority approaches to quality assurance as part of the alterative certification model. https://education.gov.scot/media/p5nlpo2o/national-reviewof-local-authorities-role-in-acm.p...

FOI unclear 75 score 20 working days correspondence 2 attachments
Published
2021-07-06
Reference
FOI/202100209381
Directorate
Topic
Education, Public sector

Breakdown of legal fees over £50,000: FOI release

1. In the last five financial years (inclusive of 2021/22), please provide the details of which matters counsel or legal advice was sought for any cumulative cost of legal fees of more than £50,000. 2. This should include live and closed matters, with "matters" taken to be a general description of the action, not the l...

FOI unclear 50 score 20 working days correspondence spending
Published
2021-07-05
Reference
FOI/202100209871
Directorate
Legal Services (Solicitor to the Scottish Government)
Topic
Law and order, Money and tax, Public sector

Breakdown of Graduate Development Programme 2021 statistics: FOI release

1) How many applicants were there to the 2021 Graduate Development Programme for the Scottish Government, reference IRC86401E? 2) How many applicants progressed to stage one - situational judgement test, numerical and verbal reasoning tests? 3) How many applicants progressed to stage two - assessment centre? 4) How man...

FOI unclear 50 score 3 working days correspondence
Published
2021-07-05
Reference
FOI/202100217703
Directorate
People Directorate
Topic
Public sector, Work and skills

Costing of lateral flow testing kits provided to football supporters: FOI release

The cost to the Scottish Government of the 17,000 lateral flow test kits mailed out to football fans heading to Glasgow Green for the Euro 2020 fanzone (both the cost of the test itself plus the mailing).

FOI unclear 50 score 14 working days correspondence spending
Published
2021-07-05
Reference
FOI/202100213204
Directorate
Topic
Arts, culture and sport, Coronavirus (COVID-19) and other respiratory infections in Scotland, Public sector

Allocation of additional funding to local authorities: FOI release

You asked for: of the appointments referred to in the following publication, please tell me how many appointments were (a) permanent and (b) temporary. https://www.gov.scot/publications/teacher-recruitment-local-authority-returns/ Please also detail of all advice sent by the Scottish Government regarding the permanence...

FOI unclear 75 score 18 working days correspondence 2 attachments
Published
2021-07-05
Reference
FOI/202100209885
Directorate
Learning Directorate
Topic
Education, Money and tax, Public sector

Policy on work email addresses and separate employment: FOI release

1. Scottish Government policy on use of work email addresses for non-work related communications. 2. Scottish Government policy on Scottish Government staff members working for another employer (or third party) – whether this be part-time, freelance or on an ad-hoc consultancy basis.

FOI unclear 80 score 7 working days correspondence s.2 2 attachments
Published
2021-07-02
Reference
FOI/202100213635
Directorate
People Directorate
Topic
Public sector, Work and skills

Assessment of Local Government flood projects: EIR release

1. How the Scottish Government assesses and prioritises Local Government flooding projects for funding. 2. What the current project prioritisation list is, and when this is to be updated. 3. What the (proposed/ draft) prioritisation list is for the next funding allocation together with details of the level of funding a...

FOI/EIR unclear 50 score 1 working days correspondence ministers contracts spending
Published
2021-07-02
Reference
FOI/202100208352
Directorate
Environment and Forestry Directorate
Topic
Environment and climate change, Money and tax, Public sector

Number of prosecutions of unpaid television licence: FOI release

The number of prosecutions raised in Scotland in the last three years for non payment of a television licence and how many of these have been successful

FOI unclear 55 score 14 working days correspondence spending s.36
Published
2021-07-02
Reference
FOI/202100213156
Directorate
Safer Communities Directorate
Topic
Law and order, Public sector

Procurement framework for the supply of IT equipment: FOI release

1. A copy of emails sent since March 2020 between officials in the Scottish Government Procurement Division discussing the readiness and/or ability of the Scottish Procurement framework to make home deliveries of office equipment/supplies to public sector workers. 2. A copy of any correspondence since March 2020 betwee...

FOI unclear 55 score 177 working days over deadline correspondence ministers contracts s.2 s.3 s.17(1)
Published
2021-07-02
Reference
FOI/202000103529
Directorate
Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate
Topic
Money and tax, Public sector

Graduate Development Programme: FOI release

I would like to request information on the Scottish Government’s Graduate Development Programme. Specifically, I would like information on: 1) the number of applicants to the programme over the last 5 intakes; 2) the number of applicants who reached the interview stage over the last 5 intakes; and 3) the number of appl...

FOI unclear 50 score 2 working days correspondence
Published
2021-07-02
Reference
FOI/202100218330
Directorate
People Directorate
Topic
Public sector, Work and skills

Total number of staff employed by Scottish Forestry: FOI release

The total number of staff employed by Scottish Forestry The number of woodland officers employed by Scottish Forestry The number of cases currently active of each Woodland officer in the south Scotland conservancy.

FOI unclear 50 score 50 working days over deadline correspondence
Published
2021-07-02
Reference
FOI/202100212509
Directorate
Topic
Farming and rural, Public sector