202300338435 · FOI · partially withheld
Correspondence from Richard Lochhead's meetings: FOI release
Information requested
All internal and external correspondence within and sent or received by the Scottish Government including attached documents, meeting handouts, memos, briefings to ministers, attendee lists, location of meeting, notes, minutes, or OneNote memos, linked to the following meetings:
Richard Lochhead's meeting with Dehenna Davison on September 27, 2022 Richard Lochhead's meeting with Dave Moxham of STUC on October 17, 2022 Richard Lochhead's meeting with Roz Foyer of STUC on October 25, 2022 Richard Lochhead's meeting with Offshore Energies UK on October 26, 2022
Response
I enclose copies of the information you have requested. Please note that some of this information has been redacted as explained in the below paragraph.
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, ie names, email addresses 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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An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, ie names, email addresses 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.