FOI/202500472911 · FOI · partially withheld
Scottish Government Executive Team correspondence regarding home and hybrid working: FOI release
Information requested
Correspondence in the last year (i.e between June 2024 and June 2025) between any member of the Scottish Government Executive Team and any Scottish Government Minister regarding home and hybrid working.
Response
I have provided a copy of all attachments covering any correspondence between June 2024 and June 2025 between any member of the Scottish Government Executive Team and any Scottish Government Minister regarding home and hybrid working.
9 January 2025 – DG Corporate meeting note with Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government. An extract from the update note has been provided as all other information from the document is out of scope. (ATTACHMENT) 14 March 2025 – DG Corporate update note to First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – update on changes to SG’s policy on hybrid working for civil servants (ATTACHMENT) 14 March 2025 – Email issued from DG Corporate to First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government (ATTACHMENT) 17 March 2025 – First Ministers email response (ATTACHMENT) 24 March 2025 – Permanent Secretary update note to First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – update on changes to SG’s policy on in person/home working for civil servants (ATTACHMENT) 24 March 2025 – Email issued from Permanent Secretary update note to First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government (ATTACHMENT) 27 May 2025 – DG Corporate update to Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government and copied to Minister for Public Finance – update on DG Corporate key issues. An extract from the update note has been provided as all other information from the document is out of scope. (ATTACHMENT)
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to a small amount of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, e.g. names/contact details of individuals, 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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Detected exemption language
(ATTACHMENT) An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to a small amount of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, e.g. names/contact details of individuals, 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.