FOI/202100189796 · FOI · partially withheld
Correspondence regarding Scottish Rugby emergency funding support: FOI release
Information requested
All correspondence or recorded communications between the two successive Ministers for Public Health, Sport & Wellbeing, Sportscotland (the Scottish Sports Council) and Scottish Rugby (the Scottish Rugby Union) respectively, during the period from 1 September 2020 - 31 March 2021, specifically in relation to the award from the Scottish Government of a package of Emergency Funding Support comprising grant and loan elements totalling £20 million, as announced on 10 December 2020.
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An exemption under section 33(1)(b) - Substantial prejudice to commercial interests of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested. Information is exempt under section 33(1)(b) if its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice substantially the commercial interests of any person.