FOI/202000088452 · FOI · partially withheld
Lobbying to exempt grouse shooting from COVID-19 restrictions: FOI release
Information requested
Details of all lobbying of the Scottish Government and its Ministers from organisations, entities and persons concerned in grouse shooting, in relation to the restrictions placed on the congregation of persons for the management of the spread of COVID19; Details of lobbying and representations made to the Scottish Government and its Ministers in support of an exemption or exemptions to COVID19 restrictions on the congregation and socialising of persons concerned with estate management with the use of firearms; Details of lobbying or representations made to the Scottish Government and Ministers in relation to the impact of COVID19 restrictions on the free movement and assembly of persons insofar as they relate to managed estates and the shooting and hunting of animals.
Response
Some of the information you have requested is available from the Lobbying Register at: https://www.lobbying.scot/SPS/ . Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy. Some of the information that we believe is in scope of your request is not available from the Lobbying Register and has been provided below:
Type of representation Date Minister Organisation Topic of discussion Ministerial meeting 20/05/2020 Fergus Ewing, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Tourism British Association for Shooting & Conservation (BASC) Proposed frameworks for returning to country sports & for appropriate Covid-19 precautions for stakeholders and practitioners. Official Correspondence 03/06/20 Roseanna Cunningham, Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Scotland’s Regional Moorland Groups Role of country sports in reviving remote communities post-lockdown Ministerial Correspondence 24/09/20 Fergus Ewing, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Tourism British Association for Shooting & Conservation (BASC) Implications of 'one household rule' for self-catering businesses on country sports
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Information requested Details of all lobbying of the Scottish Government and its Ministers from organisations, entities and persons concerned in grouse shooting, in relation to the restrictions placed on the congregation of persons for the management of the spread of COVID19; Details of lobbying and representations made to the Scottish Government and its Ministers in support of an exemption or exemptions to COVID19 restrictions on the congregation and socialising of persons concerned with estate management with the use of firearms; Details of lobbying or representations made to the Scottish Government and Ministers in relation to the impact of COVID19 restrictions on the free movement and assembly of persons insofar as they relate to managed estates and the shooting and hunting of animals. Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you.
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