FOI/202500477783 · FOI · partially withheld
Funding for Nexo Championship 2025: FOI release
Information requested
1. Any correspondence (including emails, letters, phone calls, handwritten notes, WhatsApp messages or any other documents) between the office of the First Minister and any official within the Trump Administration regarding funding for the 2025 Nexo Championship. Information should include but not be limited to a detailed timeline (with dates) of any contact between these individuals. Please provide this information between the dates of 1 February 2025 and 28 July 2025 inclusive.
2. Any correspondence (including emails, letters, phone calls, handwritten notes, WhatsApp messages or any other documents) between the office of the First Minister and any official within the Trump Organisation, or any officer of SLC TURNBERRY LIMITED or GOLF RECREATION SCOTLAND LIMITED, as listed on company house regarding funding for the 2025 Nexo Championship. Information should include but not be limited to a detailed timeline (with dates) of any contact between these individuals. Please provide this information between the dates of 1 February 2025 and 28 July 2025 inclusive.
Response
I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested in the format you asked for. The answer to your question is provided in the attached PDF document.
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 under section 38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information.
An exemption applies
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested.
This information applies to a third party.
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 under section 38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information. An exemption applies An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested. 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.