FOI/202600514655 · FOI · partially withheld
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government expense claims for 2024: FOI release
Information requested
Copies of expense claims and all corresponding receipts for Shona Robison in 2024.
Response
I enclose a copy of the information you have requested. Please be aware that to avoid personal details the receipts have been typed up in the attached Annex A. Where claims are for motor milage no receipt is included, amount is based on distance travelled.
The amount claimed by Ms Robison in 2024 is published in the Ministerial Engagements, Travel and gifts report that is published on the Scottish Government website https://www.gov.scot/collections/ministerial-engagements-travel-and-gifts/. Under section 25(1) 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.
Some information has been withheld as an exemption under section 38(1)(b) (personal data) of FOISA applies to that information, relating to copies of expense claims, this is because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in Section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. 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.
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Detected exemption language
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. Some information has been withheld as an exemption under section 38(1)(b) (personal data) of FOISA applies to that information, relating to copies of expense claims, this is because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in Section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. 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.