202200303696 · FOI · partially withheld
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spending review: FOI release
Information requested
All correspondence (including emails, attachments, typed or handwritten notes, letters, notes/records of phone calls, minutes of meetings, briefings, WhatsApp messages or otherwise) between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service regarding the Scottish Government’s Resource Spending Review. Please limit the dates of correspondence to 1 April 2022 to the present date. All correspondence (including emails, attachments, typed or handwritten notes, letters, notes/records of phone calls, minutes of meetings, briefings, WhatsApp messages or otherwise) between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service regarding the Scottish Government’s Medium Term Financial Strategy. Please limit the dates of correspondence to 1 April 2022 to the present date. All correspondence (including emails, attachments, typed or handwritten notes, letters, notes/records of phone calls, minutes of meetings, briefings, WhatsApp messages or otherwise) between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service regarding the Scottish Government’s Capital Spending Review update. Please limit the dates of correspondence to 1 April 2022 to the present date.
Response
I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested attached.
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 sections, Section 30(b) (free and frank provision of advice or exchange of views) and s.38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information. The reasons why these exemptions apply are explained at the end of this letter.
Redactions of information which is out of the scope of your original request have also been applied.
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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 sections, Section 30(b) (free and frank provision of advice or exchange of views) and s.38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information. The reasons why these exemptions apply are explained at the end of this letter.