FOI/202600512984 · FOI · partially withheld
Correspondence discussing the response to FOI request 202600503390: FOI release
Information requested
Please provide all internal Scottish Government correspondence (including Ministers, Civil Servants, Special Advisers, and Press Officers), by email or by direct messaging application, discussing the response to FOI request 202600503390.
Response
Please find enclosed a copy of the information you have requested.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are also unable to provide some of the information you have requested because of an exemption(s) under section(s) s.38(1)(b) (personal information). The reasons why exemptions are applied to the information are explained in the Annex to this letter.
ANNEX Section 38(1)(b) – applicant has asked for personal data of a third party
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.
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Detected exemption language
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are also unable to provide some of the information you have requested because of an exemption(s) under section(s) s.38(1)(b) (personal information). The reasons why exemptions are applied to the information are explained in the Annex to this letter. ANNEX Section 38(1)(b) – applicant has asked for personal data of a third party An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.