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Agenda and minutes from the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affair’s meeting with Rape Crisis Scotland, Close the Gap, SWA and Zero Tolerance: FOI release
Information requested
A copy of the agenda and minutes from the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affair’s meeting with Rape Crisis Scotland, Close the Gap, SWA and Zero Tolerance.
Response
The agenda for this meeting was as follows
Agenda/likely themes SSI to add “sex” as characteristic to 2021 Act Future legislation on misogyny Potential for discussion around how we have defined “sex” for the purpose of the SSI (although this was not referred to in the letter)
I enclose a copy of the minutes of this meeting.
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An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested. This exemption allows us to withhold the names of Government officials present at the meeting. 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.