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Ministerial meeting with East Coast Oil and Gas: FOI release
Information requested
A copy of all background notes and/or briefing/s provided to the Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy with regard to the meeting with East Coast Oil and Gas (EC-OG) in relation to the meeting on Oil and Gas held on 31st March 2017. A copy of any minute and note taken during or subsequent to this meeting.
Response
Please find enclosed a copy of some of the information you requested in Annex B.
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 exemptions under sections 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to a small amount the information and section 30(c) of FOISA (prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs) applies to some the information requested. The reasons why that exemption(s) applies are explained below.
Detected exemption language
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 exemptions under sections 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to a small amount the information and section 30(c) of FOISA (prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs) applies to some the information requested. The reasons why that exemption(s) applies are explained below. Reasons for not providing information 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 this relates to the names and contact numbers of junior Scottish Government officials, 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. An exemption under section 30(c) of FOISA (prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs) applies to some the information requested.