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FOI/202500468506 · FOI · partially withheld

Viva Engage posts containing certain phrases: FOI release

Published
2025-07-31
Received
2025-05-29
Responded
2025-06-23
Directorate
Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Topic
Public sector
Exemptions
38(1)

Information requested

Any posts on the Scottish Government All-Company group on Viva Engage since 1 November 2024 that contain any of the following phrases:

Tories Trump Supreme Court Elon Starmer Transgender Terf Conservatives Labour SNP Farage Reform Woke Regan Netflix Work from home WFH Working from home

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.

Please note that I have provided descriptions of how I have interpreted any words or phrases which have multiple meanings.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested, where the words or phrases didn't return any results.

Search: “Tories”: No results Search “Trump”: No results Search “Supreme Court”: Information provided Search “Elon”: No results Search “Starmer”: No results Search “Transgender”: Information provided Search “Terf”: No results Search “Conservatives”: No results Search “Labour”: No results (interpreted as “The Labour Party”, other meanings of “labour” excluded from search results) Search “SNP”: No results Search “Farage”: No results Search “Reform”: No results (interpreted as the “Reform UK” political party, other meanings of “reform” excluded from search results) Search “Woke”: No results (with the exception of the past tense of wake i.e. “I woke up from sleep..” excluded from search results) Search “Regan”: No results Search “Netflix”: Information provided Search “Work from home”: Information provided Search “WFH”: Information provided Search “Working from home": Information provided

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information you have requested because it is personal data of a third party, for example the names of staff who are in grades below the Senior Civil Service and health conditions.

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Detected exemption language

“I woke up from sleep..” excluded from search results) Search “Regan”: No results Search “Netflix”: Information provided Search “Work from home”: Information provided Search “WFH”: Information provided Search “Working from home": Information provided An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information you have requested because it is personal data of a third party, for example the names of staff who are in grades below the Senior Civil Service and health conditions.

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