FOI/202400422239 · FOI · partially withheld
Minister for Local Government Empowerment and Planning What's App messages during the Covid 19 pandemic: FOI release
Information requested
MSP Kevin Stewart What's App messages from his ministerial position during the Covid 19 pandemic.
Response
I have taken the period of your request to apply from 21 January 2020 when the World Health Organisation published its ‘Novel Coronavirus (2019 nCoV) Situation Report, up until 30 April 2022 when the then remaining Covid-19 restrictions were lifted in Scotland.
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Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. Exemptions under sections 29(1)(b) (Ministerial communications) and 30(c) (prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs) of FOISA applies to the remaining information you have requested.