FOI/202000021424 · FOI · partially withheld
Grouse Moor Management Group full cost of Werritty review: FOI release
Information requested
A breakdown of the FULL financial cost of the recent Werritty review on grouse moor management. You've previously provided me with information about Prof Werritty's hourly rate and the number of work days he was paid for. However, I would also like details of ALL expense claims paid to Professor Werritty and any of his colleagues (either panel members of special advisors) for work conducted as part of this review. If any further costs have been accrued by anyone else, please include those too.
Response
In our response to your previous FOI request for “how many days at £250 per day did Professor Werritty claim” we advised that Professor Werritty claimed for 95 days work. This number was slightly inaccurate, as some of Professor Werritty’s per diem costs had been attributed to expenses in error. Professor Werritty claimed for 108.5 days, the payment amounts are laid out in the table below. An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to a small amount of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, ie the names of some of those involved in the Grouse Moor Management Group 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. Some of the expenses have been grouped at the bottom of the table, such as estate expenses, where we are unable to provide the identity of individual estates:
Name Expense type Amount (£) Total (£) [Redacted] Per diem 6250.00 6481.25 Expenses 231.25 [Redacted] Expenses 47.70 47.70 [Redacted] Per diem 11875.00 13605.24 Expenses 1730.24 [Redacted] Per diem 2000.00 5351.17 Expenses 3351.17 Alan Werritty Per diem 27125.00 28380.90 Expenses 1255.90 Alison Hester Expenses 1017.05 1017.05 Colin Reid Expenses 492.90 492.90 Calum MacDonald Per diem 3000.00 3412.85 Expenses 412.85 Des Thompson Expenses 0.00 0.00 Susan Davies Expenses 0.00 0.00 Karen Rentoul Expenses 178.90 178.90 James Hutton Institute Per diem 13200.00 13200.00 Strutt and Parker Per diem 3000.00 3000.00 The Royal Society Edinburgh (inc. Saltire Hospitality) Expenses 7807.61 7807.61 Estate visit expenses Expenses 2749.20 2749.20 Non RSE Meetings Expenses 271.51 271.51 Simon Lester (Meeting 3) Expenses 241.97 241.97 Total 86238.25
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Detected exemption language
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to a small amount of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, ie the names of some of those involved in the Grouse Moor Management Group 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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