FOI/202600517005 · FOI · partially withheld
Transport Scotland - Documentation regarding England's rail fare freeze: FOI release
Information requested
All documentation held by Transport Scotland, including correspondence sent and received (including internal), minutes/notes from meetings, briefings and analysis, about England freezing its rail fare, between November 15 2025 and March 15 2026.
Response
We have provided the information we hold, which falls in the scope of the request, at the end of this letter.
While we aim to provide the information wherever possible, some of the information has been redacted or withheld in line with the following FOISA exemption:
Section 38(1)(b) – Personal data relating to third party
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. names and contact details of individuals, 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
While we aim to provide the information wherever possible, some of the information has been redacted or withheld in line with the following FOISA exemption: Section 38(1)(b) – Personal data relating to third party An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. names and contact details of individuals, 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.