FOI/202500480070 · FOI · not held
Number of entries recorded at core Scottish Government buildings: FOI release
Information requested
For each of the four core SG buildings - St Andrew’s House, Victoria Quay, Saughton House and Atlantic Quay – please can you tell me the following:
The number of unique building pass users recorded entering each facility every day, Monday to Friday, in the following months of 2024 – July, August, September, October, November, December. I’ve used this FOI response - https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202400446281/ - to shape my request but the key difference is I would like this data for every working day, not just sample days.
Response
You requested a large amount of complex information over a considerable period of time. As such, and to ensure that our FOI obligations were met, we provided you with a holding response to inform you as to when any information, if applicable, could be provided. However, upon researching your request, some of the information you requested we do not hold, therefore we are now able to provide you with the information that we do hold, quicker than expected.
You will know that Public Authorities are not required to create information in order to answer a request.
There is however a distinction between creating new information, and compiling information. Where a request can be answered by compiling information from readily-available resources held by the public authority, this is not the same as creating new information. However, if collation of the information would require skill and complex judgement, the information is not held.
To that end, we are applying s.17 (information not held) with regards to your request for the Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of each the last 6 months of 2024, as to obtain this information would be, in effect, to create new information for the purposes of answering this FOI request.
However, we do hold data that was used for reporting purposes, namely for each Tuesday in the 2nd half of 2024 please see the table below.
AQ5 % SAH % SH % VQ % Daily Total % 02-Jul 41.40% 02-Jul 24.90% 02-Jul 19.67% 02-Jul 14.00% 21.00% 09-Jul 36.77% 09-Jul 27.10% 09-Jul 17.42% 09-Jul 16.22% 21.24% 16-Jul 37.57% 16-Jul 27.83% 16-Jul 21.27% 16-Jul 15.15% 22.20% 23-Jul 42.59% 23-Jul 32.06% 23-Jul 20.19% 23-Jul 17.34% 24.22% 30-Jul 46.83% 30-Jul 33.63% 30-Jul 18.40% 30-Jul 19.17% 25.20% 06-Aug 34.79% 06-Aug 27.83% 06-Aug 21.83% 06-Aug 16.73% 22.67% 13-Aug 43.92% 13-Aug 32.68% 13-Aug 18.59% 13-Aug 19.92% 25.02% 20-Aug 56.08% 20-Aug 37.80% 20-Aug 24.18% 20-Aug 20.39% 29.25% 27-Aug 47.75% 27-Aug 34.59% 27-Aug 28.31% 27-Aug 19.49% 28.48% 03-Sep 41.53% 03-Sep 32.11% 03-Sep 23.00% 03-Sep 19.31% 25.67% 10-Sep 48.15% 10-Sep 33.86% 10-Sep 21.41% 10-Sep 20.50% 26.75% 17-Sep 44.31% 17-Sep 28.34% 17-Sep 23.00% 17-Sep 18.13% 24.61% 24-Sep 43.78% 24-Sep 37.75% 24-Sep 21.92% 24-Sep 18.27% 26.55% 01-Oct 37.43% 01-Oct 31.83% 01-Oct 23.52% 01-Oct 20.39% 25.74% 08-Oct 50.00% 08-Oct 33.69% 08-Oct 24.27% 08-Oct 20.71% 27.80% 15-Oct 38.10% 15-Oct 22.20% 15-Oct 21.13% 15-Oct 16.26% 21.28% 22-Oct 54.10% 22-Oct 33.80% 22-Oct 25.77% 22-Oct 17.66% 27.53% 29-Oct 49.60% 29-Oct 38.70% 29-Oct 26.34% 29-Oct 20.24% 29.37% 05-Nov 48.28% 05-Nov 36.34% 05-Nov 22.91% 05-Nov 19.85% 27.54% 12-Nov 41.01% 12-Nov 37.52% 12-Nov 23.33% 12-Nov 19.35% 27.02% 19-Nov 56.35% 19-Nov 40.17% 19-Nov 23.94% 19-Nov 20.28% 21.00% 26-Nov 45.24% 26-Nov 38.99% 26-Nov 20.47% 26-Nov 18.20% 26.55% 03-Dec 53.84% 03-Dec 34.59% 03-Dec 20.89% 03-Dec 17.48% 26.23% 10-Dec 54.23% 10-Dec 37.58% 10-Dec 22.35% 10-Dec 18.77% 27.88% 17-Dec 43.52% 17-Dec 33.01% 17-Dec 20.28% 17-Dec 20.93% 25.92% 24-Dec 2.65% 24-Dec 2.70% 24-Dec 1.74% 24-Dec 1.87% 2.11% 31-Dec 2.38% 31-Dec 2.03% 31-Dec 1.41% 31-Dec 1.58% 1.72%
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Detected exemption language
To that end, we are applying s.17 (information not held) with regards to your request for the Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of each the last 6 months of 2024, as to obtain this information would be, in effect, to create new information for the purposes of answering this FOI request.
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