FOI/202500480132 · FOI · partially withheld
Correspondence regarding Devolved Revenue publication: FOI release
Information requested
This request relates to the following news release:
https://www.gov.scot/news/devolved-revenue-grows-faster-than-expenditure/
Please provide all internal Scottish Government discussion (involving Ministers, Civil Servants, Special Advisers, or Press Officers), by email or direct messaging applications, on the drafting of the above news release.
Please list the names of all Scottish Government civil servants who signed off on the wording of this news release, and for those who cannot be named, their job titles.
Response
I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.
An exemption under section 38(1) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested. In line with standard Scottish Government practice, the names of officials below Senior Civil Service have been withheld. As you have requested, job titles have been provided in these cases.
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An exemption under section 38(1) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested.