FOI/202500466738 · FOI · partially withheld
Scottish Care correspondence: FOI release
Information requested
All correspondence received by the Scottish Government or Ministers [between January 2024 - April 2025] from Karen Hedge or Donald Macaskill. Please forward all emails sent to them by the Minister Ms Todd or on behalf of her [and] all emails sent to KH and/or DM by the Scottish Government relating to Annes Law/ visiting in care homes/ section 40 of the Care Reform Scotland Bill or National Care Service Bill as it was formerly known.
Response
After a search of email inboxes, I have compiled all responses that are relevant to and in scope with your request. Please find enclosed a copy of this in the form of a PDF document. Any attachments referenced in the email chains have also been uploaded as separate emails, redacted in line with FOISA guidance. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies. Disclosing this information 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. FOISA exemption Section 30(b)(i) was also applied in one instance as the information was classed as official and disclosing this would impinge Scottish Government's ability to carry out the free and frank provision of advice in a safe space.
Furthermore, Minister Todd's emails were searched in line with your request but yielded a nil result. Minister Todd is mentioned in one of the email chains provided, dated 04 July 2024, which I have highlighted yellow.
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Detected exemption language
Please forward all emails sent to them by the Minister Ms Todd or on behalf of her [and] all emails sent to KH and/or DM by the Scottish Government relating to Annes Law/ visiting in care homes/ section 40 of the Care Reform Scotland Bill or National Care Service Bill as it was formerly known. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies. Disclosing this information 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. FOISA exemption Section 30(b)(i) was also applied in one instance as the information was classed as official and disclosing this would impinge Scottish Government's ability to carry out the free and frank provision of advice in a safe space.