FOI/202500462501 · FOI · partially withheld
Supreme Court judgement For Women Scotland correspondence: FOI release
Information requested
Please provide information held on internal staff networks (such as yammer/viva engage, including but not limited to the the LGBT+ network), which references or relates to the recent Supreme Court judgment FWS v Scottish Ministers. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not requesting personal information relating to staff members.
Response
You have not referred to a period that you wish the request to cover, I have therefore interpreted your request to be seeking information relating to the Supreme Court judgement after that decision was made 16 April 2025. I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested as Annex A.
Some of the information you have requested is publicly available as it is contained within published newspapers i.e. Social Justice Media Digest 17/04 refers to articles in; Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail (Scotland), The Sun (Scotland), The Times (Scotland), News Letter (Belfast), City AM, i-the paper for today (Scotland), Daily Mirror, Daily Mirror (Ulster), the Times (Ireland), Neus-Grevenbroicher Zeitung Neuss, The Scotsman, Daily Express (London), Rheinische Post, Solinger Bergische Morgenpost Solingen, Metro (Scotland), The Sun.
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you.
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. the names and individual telephone and email contact details of officials within the Scottish Government or UK government departments, 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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Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. the names and individual telephone and email contact details of officials within the Scottish Government or UK government departments, 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.