FOI/202500464864 · FOI · partially withheld
Correspondence for the Remote, Rural and Islands Overarching Task & Finish Group: FOI release
Information requested
You asked for meeting minutes, agendas, briefings and papers for the remote and rural task and finish group for meetings from October 2024 to date, and the group’s most recent terms of reference.
Response
I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested.
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 to that information. The reasons why that exemption applies are explained in the Annex to this letter.
Annex - Reasons for not providing information
An exemption applies 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, i.e. names 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
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 to that information. The reasons why that exemption applies are explained in the Annex to this letter. Annex - Reasons for not providing information An exemption applies 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, i.e. names 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.