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Science Festival Funding and Caithness Festival correspondence: FOI release
Information requested
You asked for a range of information around science festival funding and communication between officials in the Scottish Government, the Chief Scientific Adviser and Scottish Government Ministers as it related to Caithness International Science Festival funding issues.
Response
I enclose an electronic copy of most of the information you requested.
Title Attachment File Type Size 14-15 Request for funding - AESF Annex 1 PDF 156KB 14-15 Request for funding - Caithness Annex 2 PDF 151KB 14-15 Request for funding - Dumfries & Galloway Annex 3 PDF 182KB 14-15 Request for funding - Dundee Annex 4 PDF 256KB 14-15 Request for funding - Falkirk & Grangemouth Annex 5 PDF 241KB 14-15 Request for funding - Festival of the Sea Annex 6 PDF 138KB 14-15 Request for funding - Glasgow Annex 7 PDF 214KB 14-15 Request for funding - Moray Annex 8 PDF 134KB 14-15 Request for funding - Orkney Annex 9 PDF 182KB 14-15 Request for funding - Techfest Annex 10 PDF 153KB 14-15 Request for funding - Inverness Annex 11 PDF 222KB 14-15 Request for funding - EISF Annex 12 PDF 219KB 14-15 Request for funding - Midlothian Annex 13 PDF 450KB 15-16 Request for funding - Dunbar Annex 14 PDF 367KB 15-16 Request for funding - Fife Annex 15 PDF 172KB 15-16 Request for funding - Midlothian Annex 16 PDF 432KB 15-16 Request for funding - Oban Annex 17 PDF 222KB 15-16 Request for funding - Strathearn Annex 18 PDF 225KB 16-17 Request for funding - Fife Annex 19 PDF 291KB 16-17 Request for funding - Inverness Annex 20 PDF 228KB 16-17 Request for funding - Borders Annex 21 PDF 262KB 16-17 Request for funding - Caithness Annex 22 PDF 186KB 16-17 Request for funding - Dumfries & Galloway Annex 23 PDF 327KB 16-17 Request for funding - Dundee Annex 24 PDF 322KB 16-17 Request for funding - Glasgow Annex 25 PDF 219KB 16-17 Request for funding - Midlothian Annex 26 PDF 188KB 16-17 Request for funding - Moray Annex 27 PDF 219KB 16-17 Request for funding - Orkney Annex 28 PDF 296KB 16-17 Request for funding - Strathearn Annex 29 PDF 221KB 2017 Caithness Science Festival - correspondence Annex 30 PDF 2MB
Due to the file size of the documents released, copies can be provided on request by emailing ceu@gov.scot, quoting the FOI reference number FOI/17/01992
In addition, the information provided includes funding requests held by the Scottish Government for the same period, and emails covering the period and subjects as set out in your request. Some of the information within these releases has been redacted to protect personal data.
The answer to your request for funding allocated to science festivals between 2014-2017 is:
Scottish Government funding allocated to Science Festivals 2014-2017
Science Festival 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 Ayrshire Science and Engineering Festival £5,000 £5,000 N/A Borders N/A £5,000 £10,000 Caithness £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 Dumfries & Galloway £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 Dunbar £10,000 £10,000 N/A Dundee £15,000 £15,000 £10,000 EISF £65,000 £65,000 £65,000 Fife £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 Glasgow £35,000 £35,000 £35,000 Hebridian £10,000 N/A N/A Inverness £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 Midlothian £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 Moray £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 MoSSFEST £5,000 £5,000 N/A Oban, Lorns and the Isles Festival for the Sea £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 Orkney £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 Strathearn £5,000 £5,000 £5,000 Techfest £25,000 £25,000 £25,000 TOTALS £255,000 £250,000 £230,000
Some of the information you have requested has not been released because it is available from www.gov.scot as part of a previous request, FOI/17/01816 or because it contains information (emails) you yourself sent. Under section 25(i) 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 listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.
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 an exemptions under section s.38(1)(b) (Personal data) of FOISA applies to that information. The reasons why the exemption applies are explained below.
Reasons for not providing information
An exemption applies.
An exemption under section s.38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested. Section s.38(1)(b) (Personal data) applies to a small amount of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, e.g. names of officials, science festival organisers and their personal contact details or personal opinion, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Schedule 1 to the Data Protection Act 1998. 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.
Detected exemption language
Under section 25(i) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible 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 an exemptions under section s.38(1)(b) (Personal data) of FOISA applies to that information. The reasons why the exemption applies are explained below. Reasons for not providing information An exemption applies. An exemption under section s.38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested.
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