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Communications with Education Scotland staff regarding Freedom of Information requests: FOI review
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In your review request, you asked: for a clear and detailed account of the reasons for the delay in providing a response to your request; if all of the relevant information had been identified and included in our response to your request; and for a reconsideration of the application of section 38(1)(b)(personal data) and confirmation that all information previously withheld fell under this exemption, as it appeared that more than personal information had been redacted from Document 29. After receiving a response under section 12 of FOISA which advised you that we considered responding to this request would breach the upper cost limit of £600, you subsequently split this request into two separate requests which sought to obtain the same information over the time periods January 2016 to December 2016, and January 2017 to 10 August 2018 (this request). This is because it was considered necessary to discuss the interpretation of the scope of your request, the appropriateness of the exemption(s) proposed and the format of the redactions proposed, prior to finalising your response. We also concluded that some information initially considered to fall under an exemption could be released to you, and that the remaining redactions required were limited to a small amount of personal data. I am satisfied that the redaction process was applied correctly in all other instances, and we were entitled to withhold the redacted information under section 38(1)(b) (personal information) for the reasons given in our initial response.