Scottish Government FOI Index

21,864releases indexed

39,478attachments found

29.7avg calendar days

8,113partially withheld

2016-06-13oldest in sample

2026-06-12newest in sample

Outcomes

partially withheld 8,113 unclear 7,200 not held 3,069 released 1,537 already published 671 cost limit 607 clarification 349 withheld 241 transferred 77

Top Exemptions

s.38(1) 4931 s.20 4280 s.34(1) 3589 s.39(2) 3481 s.30 2878 s.17(1) 2774 s.25(1) 2381 s.10(4) 1987 s.11(2) 1571 s.29(1) 1175 s.2 1158 s.3 908

Timeline

2026-06 1 2026-05 410 2026-04 312 2026-03 217 2026-02 589 2026-01 479 2025-12 177 2025-11 263

Directorate Profiles

Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate 1,279 releases · 27.9 avg days Marine Directorate 967 releases · 29.6 avg days Energy and Climate Change Directorate 923 releases · 31.0 avg days Learning Directorate 861 releases · 34.4 avg days Economic Development Directorate 729 releases · 39.9 avg days Constitution Directorate 685 releases · 36.1 avg days Population Health Directorate 645 releases · 28.7 avg days People Directorate 633 releases · 25.8 avg days

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1,607 matching releases

Private evidence session regarding Gender Recognition Reform: FOI release

Details of any private evidence sessions that have taken place with regard to the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Bill that the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee hasn't announced. Have civil servants or MSPs (or both) taken evidence from witnesses for the GRR Bill in private? If so, can you provide ...

FOI unclear 50 score 15 working days correspondence ministers briefings meetings

Published: 2022-06-23
Reference: FOI/202200300807
Directorate: Justice Directorate
Topic: Equality and rights, Public sector

Her Majesty the Queen's Platinum Jubilee: FOI release

1). Information to outline why the Scottish Government objected to the distribution of a book to all Primary school-aged children to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. 2). Information to indicate who in the Scottish Government was involved in making the decision that Scottish schools would have to 'op...

FOI unclear 55 score 24 working days over deadline correspondence ministers meetings s.7

Published: 2022-06-22
Reference: FOI/202200300290
Directorate: Education Reform Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Free bus pass scheme for young people: FOI release

1) Were there target figures set by the Government and what were these figures? I’m particularly interested in when the Government expected to achieve total rollout, or was that never an expectation? 2) Given that the majority of applicants would have been school children, why didn’t the Government put in place a proce...

FOI unclear 55 score 20 working days correspondence ministers s.17(1) s.4

Published: 2022-06-22
Reference: FOI/202200301695
Directorate
Topic

Information regarding staff within Corporate communications: FOI release

1. How many staff are employed within the Scottish Government corporate communications department (or equivalent) with duties involving the health and social care portfolio? 2. What pay banding do each of the staff members within the department with duties relating to the health and social care portfolio fall into? Ple...

FOI unclear 50 score 22 working days over deadline correspondence ministers

Published: 2022-06-22
Reference: FOI/202200300251
Directorate: Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Topic: Health and social care, Public sector

Risk Management Authority required to approve a Risk Management Plan: FOI release

1. Information which your department uses when dealing and processing requests relating to the termination or changing of life licence. 2. If there is no input from the Justice Department then why can the supervising social Worker not submit the request directly to the Parole Board? 3. The determination of life licence...

FOI unclear 55 score 23 working days over deadline correspondence ministers s.2(5) s.1(210F) s.12(3) s.3

Published: 2022-06-15
Reference: FOI/202200294386
Directorate: Justice Directorate
Topic: Law and order, Public sector

Details of Scottish Government official presence at the COP26 conference: FOI Review

1) What are the plans for the Scottish Government's official presence at the COP26? By this I mean the location, duration, and physical staff presence? 2) Please provide the overall financial cost of the Scottish Government's official presence at COP26. 2a) This should include the cost of hiring any venue as part of th...

FOI unclear 50 score 161 working days over deadline correspondence ministers spending

Published: 2022-06-15
Reference: FOI/202100247693 Review of 202100241108
Directorate: Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Topic: Environment and climate change, Public sector

Repair work undertaken to sections of the M8: EIR review

Full details of the damage existing on the carriageway over the time periods requested. Surely in briefing a contractor to repair the road, Transport Scotland would have first received full details of all the damage, including depths of the potholes, so that you could advise the contractor on what they need to come pre...

FOI/EIR unclear 50 score 21 working days over deadline correspondence ministers briefings contracts

Published: 2022-06-09
Reference: FOI/202200297926 Review of 202200287705
Directorate
Topic: Public sector, Transport

Resilience Training visits made to Bute House: FOI release

In a previous FOI response (ref 202200280151) it was stated that there were visits made to Bute House by Scottish Government employees on the 25th, 26th, 30th & 31st of March 2020 and later on the 16th April 2020 and each time their 'reason for visit' was 'Resilience Training'. Please provide the following information:...

FOI unclear 55 score 20 working days correspondence ministers meetings s.17(1)

Published: 2022-06-07
Reference: FOI/202200296780
Directorate: Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Topic: Public safety and emergencies, Public sector

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands' trip to Catalonia in April 2022: FOI release

You asked for the following: 1. The total cost of Cabinet Secretary Mairi Gougeon’s trip to Catalonia on the week commencing 25 April 2022, including the cost of travel, accommodation, and all expenses. 2. The Cabinet Secretary’s method of travel to and from Catalonia on the week commencing 25 April 2022. 3. How the Sc...

FOI unclear 55 score 20 working days correspondence ministers spending s.2

Published: 2022-06-07
Reference: FOI/202200297360
Directorate: Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Quasi Governmental Agencies (Quangos) and public scrutiny: FOI release

Does SG expect its partner agencies and QUANGOS to involve all stakeholders - fully open to public scrutiny in their work to same level as SG?

FOI unclear 50 score 4 working days correspondence ministers

Published: 2022-06-07
Reference: FOI/202200301209
Directorate
Topic: Constitution and democracy, Public sector

Information pertaining to cladding: FOI release

1) How many meetings have been held by the ministerial working group on mortgage lending and cladding over the last two years? 2) Dates and briefing notes from these meetings? 3) How much of the £97.1m cladding funding from the UK government has been spent and a breakdown of what it has been spent on? 4) How many high ...

FOI unclear 55 score 21 working days over deadline correspondence ministers briefings meetings spending s.17(1)

Published: 2022-06-07
Reference: FOI/202200297960
Directorate
Topic: Housing, Public sector

Clarification of claims made in judicial review of definition of 'woman': FOI release

During the remedy hearing in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd against the Lord Advocate and the Scottish Ministers which took place on 22 March 2022, counsel for the Scottish Government made a number of claims: Since the commencement of the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act 2018, there have been 340 appoint...

FOI unclear 55 score 41 working days over deadline correspondence ministers s.2 s.21

Published: 2022-05-23
Reference: FOI/202200289705
Directorate
Topic: Equality and rights, Public sector

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands' ministerial trip to Catalonia: FOI release

What individuals Cabinet Secretary Mairi Gougeon met on her ministerial trip to Catalonia on the week commencing 25 April 2022. Please include names, positions and organisations they represent or are a member of.

FOI unclear 50 score 15 working days correspondence ministers

Published: 2022-05-20
Reference: FOI/202200297485
Directorate: Population Health Directorate
Topic: International, Public sector

How £70 million of National Insurance funding was spent: FOI release

Information regarding how £70 million of National Insurance funding received from the UK Government was to be spent and the interaction with local government funding.

FOI unclear 50 score 11 working days correspondence ministers spending

Published: 2022-05-19
Reference: FOI/202200295255
Directorate: Financial Management Directorate
Topic: Health and social care, Public sector, Scottish Budget

Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture Tartan Week trip: FOI release

Details of the travelling costs, including costs of Scottish Government Minister Angus Robertson, to fly to North America and back during Tartan Week, which took place on April 6 and finished in a Tartan Day Parade in New York on April 9; can you please confirm if Mr Robertson and his colleagues travelled business or f...

FOI unclear 75 score 21 working days over deadline correspondence ministers meetings spending 2 attachments

Published: 2022-05-17
Reference: FOI/202200294438
Directorate: Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Topic: Arts, culture and sport, International, Public sector

Funding provided to support Ukrainian refugees and the Cabinet Secretary’s Budget announcement: FOI release

Information regarding funding being provided by the Scottish Government to support Ukrainian refugees as well as the Cabinet Secretary’s Budget announcement for 2022-23.

FOI unclear 50 score 19 working days correspondence ministers spending

Published: 2022-05-17
Reference: FOI/202200288684
Directorate: Financial Management Directorate
Topic: International, Public sector, Scottish Budget, +1 more … Ukraine

Sexual abuse in Scottish football: FOI release

1. In that request, I was informed that the Scottish Government had not made contact with the United States Department of Justice, The New Jersey Attorney General, or both. Since the previous request: 1.1 Has the Scottish Government made contact with either or both? 1.2 If no contact has been made, can it be explained...

FOI unclear 55 score 13 working days correspondence ministers s.1 s.2 s.3 s.17 s.5

Published: 2022-05-17
Reference: FOI/202200289175
Directorate: Population Health Directorate
Topic: Health and social care, Public sector

Number of ministers fluent in Gaelic: FOI release

How many of the twenty-seven Scottish Government ministers are fluent in Gaelic?

FOI unclear 50 score 8 working days correspondence ministers

Published: 2022-05-17
Reference: FOI/202200295114
Directorate: Learning Directorate
Topic: Education, Public sector

Scoring error in the LS/CMI system: FOI release

You asked for information regarding the scoring error in the LS/CMI system. Please find a response to your requests below: 1) How long the error had been occurring for, before it was identified in January of this year? 2) How many prisoners were wrongly scored in total using this system? 3) How many prisoners had sco...

FOI unclear 55 score 18 working days correspondence ministers s.4 s.5 s.6

Published: 2022-05-17
Reference: FOI/202200287599
Directorate: Justice Directorate
Topic: Law and order, Public sector

Correspondence regarding Longannet Power Station: FOI release

Copies of written communications between either Scottish ministers, civil servants, Scottish Enterprise, and executives at (or representatives of) manufacturing company Talgo, from 2017 until the present day, which concern the future of Longannet Power Station and/or the Scottish Governments intentions regarding the po...

FOI unclear 75 score 27 working days over deadline correspondence ministers meetings 4 attachments

Published: 2022-05-17
Reference: FOI/202200277648
Directorate: Economic Development Directorate
Topic: Business, industry and innovation, Economy, Public sector

The About Dementia’s grant request: FOI release

About Dementia’s document that argued that they should receive the £1 million grant; one of the reasons is that they only got involved in November 2021, ie the month before. They had no prior experience of Meeting Centres, and had had no training regarding them

FOI unclear 50 score 20 working days correspondence ministers briefings meetings

Published: 2022-05-17
Reference: FOI/202200290129
Directorate: Mental Health Directorate
Topic: Health and social care, Public sector

Refurbishment of St Andrews House: FOI release

1) Any information held on the topic of the refurbishment of St. Andrew's House which is ongoing, including any lists of what is being purchased and the work being undertaken.

FOI unclear 50 score 35 working days over deadline correspondence ministers spending

Published: 2022-05-17
Reference: FOI/202200289707
Directorate: Corporate Operations Directorate
Topic: Building, planning and design, Public sector

Tertiary education in North and South Lanarkshire: FOI release

1. What action has the Scottish Government taken to ensure that the Boards of both South Lanarkshire College and New College Lanarkshire are complying with the terms of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013? 2. What action has the Scottish Government taken t...

FOI unclear 55 score 16 working days correspondence ministers spending s.2 s.3 s.17(1)

Published: 2022-05-16
Reference: FOI/202200286357
Directorate
Topic: Education, Public sector

Ministerial visits with Ferguson Marine Shipyard: FOI release

1. Any Ministerial visits Jenny Gilruth has conducted to the Ferguson Marine shipyard since 24 January 2022.

FOI unclear 50 score 1 working days correspondence ministers

Published: 2022-05-16
Reference: FOI/202200295359
Directorate
Topic: Marine and fisheries, Public sector

White privilege tests: FOI release

"Has the First Minister and the cabinet taken ‘white privilege tests’, as she said they would on the Trevor Phillips on Sunday politics show 12 September, 2021? https://news.sky.com/video/trevorphillips-on-sunday-the-highlights-from-todays-show-with-sajid-javid-nicola-sturgeon-jonathan-ashworthand-jack-straw-12406056 I...

FOI unclear 50 score 18 working days correspondence ministers

Published: 2022-05-16
Reference: FOI/202200289067
Directorate: Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Topic: Equality and rights, Public sector