FOI/202500473610 · FOI · partially withheld
Financial Memorandum for the Education (Scotland) Bill 2025 correspondence: FOI release
Information requested
Any correspondence between the Bill Team in the Scottish Parliament and civil servants relating to the drafting of the Financial Memorandum for the Education (Scotland) Bill 2025.
Response
I enclose the information you have requested. Where attachments pertinent to your request have been included in emails, they have been provided separately under Annexes. Exemptions under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA apply to some of the information you have requested and information has been redacted accordingly.
38(1)(b) - Third party personal data
The information contains the personal data of 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.
Some information has been redacted as it lies outwith the scope of your request.
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Exemptions under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA apply to some of the information you have requested and information has been redacted accordingly. 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.