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Scottish Information Commissioner intervention: FOI review
Information requested
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In your request for a review, you indicated that you wished us to reconsider every instance where the exemptions in section 30(b)(i) (free and frank provision of advice) and section 30(b)(ii) (free and frank exchange of views for the purposes of deliberation) had been relied upon. You also asked that your personal data, which was withheld under section 38(1)(a), be disclosed. In reviewing our response, I have also examined the other exemptions which were applied and I have reconsidered whether information that was identified as being out of scope in fact fell within the scope of your request. It took considerably longer than expected to reconsider each instance of the exemptions that you mentioned, as well as identifying your personal data throughout the information that we had identified, but as a consequence of the review, we are now disclosing a substantial further quantity of information to you. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because the following exemption(s) apply: section 30(c) (substantial prejudice to the effective conduct of public affairs) section 38(1)(b) (personal information).