FOI/202400435999 · FOI · partially withheld
Constitutional Futures Division documents that include the phrase "starting fiscal position": FOI release
Information requested
For the period 17th October 2022 - date, please provide all documentation and correspondence involving the Constitutional Futures Division which includes the phrase "starting fiscal position".
Response
Some of the information you have requested has previously been published and can be found on the Scottish Government’s website at:
Building a New Scotland: A stronger economy with independence - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Building a New Scotland - A stronger economy with independence: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Scottish financial forecasts: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons documentation, Building a New Scotland papers costs and the Scottish Government's ‘route back into EU’ analysis: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Former First Minister's speech on the constitution and independence: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Nuclear Weapons and the Scottish Security and Intelligence Agency: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
Additional information is enclosed in the Annex, and separately with this letter.
An exemption under section s.38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested because it is the personal data of a third party, i.e. names and 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 whether the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.
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An exemption under section s.38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested because it is the personal data of a third party, i.e. names and 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 whether the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.