FOI/202600519548 · FOI · partially withheld
Communications mentioning the former Chief Executive of the Scottish National Party: FOI release
Information requested
Please may you disclose all communications between the Scottish Government between 2007 and 2nd June 2026 and emails featuring @snpmedia.net and @snp.org which contain the words “Peter Murrell” or “Murrell”.
Response
I enclose a copy of the information you requested.
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 an exemption(s) under section 38(1)(b) (third party personal data) of FOISA applies to that information.
Section 38(1)(b) applies to some of the information because it is personal data of a third party, including the names of Scottish Government officials below the level of Senior Civil Servant, and personal email addresses. Disclosing this 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 our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption(s) under section 38(1)(b) (third party personal data) of FOISA applies to that information. Section 38(1)(b) applies to some of the information because it is personal data of a third party, including the names of Scottish Government officials below the level of Senior Civil Servant, and personal email addresses. Disclosing this 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.