FOI/202600500670 · FOI · partially withheld
Calendar entries for selected Ministers for August 2025: FOI release
Information requested
The calendar of the Minister for Drugs & Alcohol Policy and Sport for the month of August 2025 with the specific hours of each meeting/item. For example, between 1pm and 2pm on X date the Minister met with Y.
The calendar of the Minister for Higher and Further Education and Minister for Veterans for the month of August 2025 with the specific hours of each meeting/item. For example, between 1pm and 2pm on X date the Minister met with Y.
Response
Please find in Annex A two tables which articulates all entries to the Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy and Sport calendar and the Minister for Higher and Further Education and Minister for Veterans calendar for August 2025 respectively.
The Scottish Government proactively publishes Ministerial engagements, including external engagements and travel information. This transparency data can be accessed via this weblink: https://www.gov.scot/collections/ministerial-engagements-travel-and-gifts/. This includes journeys undertaken by the Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy and Sport and the Minister for Higher and Further Education and Minister for Veterans for the month of August 2025.
As some of the information you have requested is publicly available from the Scottish Government website, 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 any of this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact us again and we will send you a paper copy.
This is a formal notice under section 39(1) of FOISA that the disclosure of some of the information which you have requested would, or would likely to, endanger the physical or mental health or the safety of an individual.
Our application of this exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information now outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have concluded that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, since disclosing habitual unaccompanied travel information can lead to a pattern of movement, which would or would likely to, endanger the physical or mental health or the safety of an individual.
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As some of the information you have requested is publicly available from the Scottish Government website, under Section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. This is a formal notice under section 39(1) of FOISA that the disclosure of some of the information which you have requested would, or would likely to, endanger the physical or mental health or the safety of an individual. Our application of this exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information now outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have concluded that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, since disclosing habitual unaccompanied travel information can lead to a pattern of movement, which would or would likely to, endanger the physical or mental health or the safety of an individual.