Scottish Government FOI Index

22,647releases indexed

40,488attachments found

29.5avg calendar days

8,388partially withheld

2016-06-13oldest in sample

2026-09-30newest in sample

Outcomes

partially withheld 8,388 unclear 7,405 not held 3,241 released 1,581 already published 703 cost limit 627 clarification 372 withheld 249 transferred 81

Top Exemptions

s.38(1) 5151 s.20 4430 s.34(1) 3728 s.39(2) 3593 s.30 2996 s.17(1) 2927 s.25(1) 2524 s.10(4) 2060 s.11(2) 1619 s.2 1227 s.29(1) 1223 s.3 959

Timeline

2026-09 8 2026-08 299 2026-07 476 2026-06 1 2026-05 410 2026-04 312 2026-03 217 2026-02 589

Directorate Profiles

Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate 1,312 releases · 27.9 avg days Marine Directorate 978 releases · 29.6 avg days Energy and Climate Change Directorate 962 releases · 30.9 avg days Learning Directorate 871 releases · 34.3 avg days Economic Development Directorate 737 releases · 39.7 avg days Constitution Directorate 702 releases · 35.9 avg days Population Health Directorate 665 releases · 28.5 avg days People Directorate 657 releases · 25.6 avg days

Clear

22,647 matching releases

Extension to the road works at the Rest and Be Thankful: EIR release

The reason for the recent extension to the road works section at the RABT and an estimate of timescale as to when this will be moved back to its original position.

FOI/EIR partially withheld 65 score 5 working days correspondence s.20 s.39(2)

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200331966
Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Forth Road Bridge Maintenance Costs: EIR release

Since the opening of the Queensferry Crossing, roadworks have never stopped on the Forth Road Bridge. Extensive work is ongoing and I ask: What was the budget for the last 5 years? What was the cost for the last 5 years What is the budget for future years As the bridge is only open to a small number of authorised vehi...

FOI/EIR not held 45 score 18 working days correspondence contracts spending s.20 s.39(2) s.10(4) s.6(1)

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200329215
Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Repayments made to date by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland: FOI release

The total repayments made to date by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) against a Scottish Government Loan of £500,000 which they received in 2020.

FOI unclear 50 score 14 working days correspondence spending

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200329923
Directorate: Environment and Forestry Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Collaborative messaging apps and non-work / social spaces: FOI release

Please see the notes at the bottom for clarification on these requests. 1. Do you use one or more collaborative messaging apps? ** If no to Q1, Q2-4 do not apply to you and I do not need a response to them. ** 2. Please supply: 2.1. a list of names of those apps, and 2.2. the total number of your employees and workers ...

FOI not held 45 score 19 working days correspondence ministers meetings s.1 s.4 s.17(1)

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200328528
Directorate: Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Housing for Homeless Veterans: FOI release

If the Government has successfully negotiated the retrieval of these [empty] properties from the MOD and furthermore, if the Government has been able to reduce the number of empty homes in Scotland, which at the time this article was written in, I think, 2020, was 65,277 and rising.

FOI not held 40 score 24 working days over deadline correspondence

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200327374
Directorate: Local Government and Housing Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Chief Medical Officer collaborative messaging apps: FOI release

1. Do you use one or more collaborative messaging apps? ** If no to Q1, Q2-4 do not apply to you and I do not need a response to them. ** 2. Please supply: 2.1. a list of names of those apps, and 2.2. the total number of your employees and workers who are registered for each app. 3. Please provide a list names of publ...

FOI unclear 55 score 19 working days correspondence ministers meetings s.4 s.1 s.17(1)

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200328549
Directorate: Chief Medical Officer Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Funding paid by the Scottish Government for the Scottish Social Attitudes surveys: FOI release

The amount of the total funding paid by the Scottish Government for the Scottish Social Attitudes surveys in 2020/2021 & 2021/22.

FOI unclear 50 score 21 working days over deadline correspondence spending

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200327728
Directorate: Performance, Delivery and Resilience Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Affordable housing supply programme: FOI release

Each of the last 5 financial years, please send me the projected budget for the affordable housing supply programme, and the actual spend for each of those years. I am looking for the underspend figure for each of those years. For this financial year please send me the forecasted budget for the programme and the estima...

FOI partially withheld 65 score 20 working days correspondence spending s.27

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200328044
Directorate: Local Government and Housing Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Emergency Budget Review - reprioritising £10m from Housing capital projects: FOI release

1) In the Emergency Budget Review, the Scottish Government states it is reprioritising £10m from Housing capital projects, specifically "£6m of reduced expenditure in Buildings Standards projects this financial year due to prioritisation of assessment in advance of remediation (which lowers costs in the first instance)...

FOI unclear 50 score 18 working days correspondence spending

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200328366
Directorate: Local Government and Housing Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Residential housing repossession figures: FOI release

The latest figures for the number of property repossession cases initiated in Scotland. The most recent figures available are from the publication Civil justice statistics in Scotland 2020-21 which is published here: https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/statistics/2022/04/civil-justicest...

FOI unclear 50 score 4 working days correspondence

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200331472
Directorate: Safer Communities Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Information regarding Contact Centres of government organisations: FOI release

Information for the Contact Centres of all named below government organisations for business analysis purposes. 1. The number of your contact centre seats? 2. Do you outsource your contact centre? 3. What is your current contact centre solution? 4. What is your current UC/PBX solution? 5. What is your contact centre co...

FOI unclear 55 score 11 working days correspondence contracts s.1

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200329872
Directorate: Digital Directorate
Topic: Public sector

European Union flags purchased: FOI release

How many European Union flags has the Scottish Government purchased since 23 June 2016? How much did this cost the Scottish Government? How many European Union flags has the Scottish Government purchased since 31 January 2020? How much did this cost the Scottish Government?

FOI released 70 score 16 working days correspondence spending

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200327188
Directorate: Corporate Operations Directorate
Topic: Public sector

ICT data statistics regarding accessing Sottish National Party systems: FOI Review

1. For each calendar or financial year for which records are held: a) the number of @gov.scot (government employees) email user accounts which have accessed SNP party email or data transfer systems from a Scottish Government device (including laptops, desktops, tablets and mobile phones). Please include the role title ...

FOI unclear 55 score 2 working days correspondence s.21(4) s.2

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200300061 Review of 202200293258
Directorate: Digital Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Money paid by the Scottish Government each year for Amazon and Amazon Web Services products and services: FOI release

How much money does the Scottish Government pay each year for Amazon and Amazon Web Services products and services?

FOI unclear 50 score 11 working days correspondence contracts spending

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200328160
Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Costs of overtime worked by Scottish Forestry employees: FOI release

1) The costs of overtime worked by Scottish Forestry employees in 2020-21, 2021-22 and so far in 2022-23. 2) For any overtime hours detailed how many of these hours in each year did employees receive payment for and/or how many hours did they receive no compensation for?

FOI unclear 50 score 12 working days correspondence spending

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200328269
Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Social media management and monitoring tool supplier: FOI release

1. Who is your social media management and monitoring tool supplier? 2. Start date & duration of framework/contract with the supplier. 3. Actual spend on this contract/framework (and any sub lots), from the start of the contract to the current date. 4. Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for ...

FOI unclear 50 score 11 working days correspondence contracts spending

Published: 2022-12-05
Reference: FOI/202200327394
Directorate: Social Security Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Education Scotland and Aberdeenshire Council: FOI release

Request 1: All correspondence (including emails, text messages and any other method of communication) between Education Scotland and office of the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland on the issue of child protection, safeguarding and/or children's rights concerns in Scotland, between 01/01/2020 and the da...

FOI already published 80 score 10 working days correspondence whatsapp s.17(1) s.25(1) s.38(1) s.34(1) 2 attachments

Published: 2022-11-30
Reference: FOI/202200329532
Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Approved shooting clubs in Scotland: EIR release

1) How many approved shooting clubs are there in Scotland? 2) Can I have a list of the names of all approved Scottish clubs? 3) Of that list can you tell me which of these were granted approval in the last five years? (Can these be listed by year please) 4) How many applications for approval for Scottish clubs were rej...

FOI/EIR unclear 80 score 15 working days correspondence ministers spending s.20 s.15 s.2 2 attachments

Published: 2022-11-30
Reference: FOI/202200328272
Directorate: Safer Communities Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Discussion held regarding Edinburgh Festival: FOI release

All briefings sent to the Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, Culture and External Affairs and the Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development on the Edinburgh Festivals between January 2022 and the present day. A list of meetings held, and any notes of these meeting, which included either the Cabinet Se...

FOI partially withheld 90 score 40 working days over deadline correspondence ministers briefings meetings s.38(1) s.33(1) s.30 2 attachments

Published: 2022-11-30
Reference: FOI/202200322587
Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Staff allocated to deliver individual benefits under Social Security Scotland: FOI release

Data on the number of staff allocated to deliver each individual benefit administered by Social Security Scotland, broken down by month since the creation of Social Security Scotland in 2018.

FOI unclear 75 score 20 working days correspondence ministers spending 2 attachments

Published: 2022-11-30
Reference: FOI/202200327301
Directorate: Social Security Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Reports undertaken by Deloitte around GFG Alliance/Liberty Steel/deals with Sanjeev Gupta: FOI release

Any internal correspondence between Deloitte (or Teneo staff working under the Deloitte name) and the Scottish Government on the topic of reports undertaken by Deloitte around GFG Alliance/Liberty Steel/deals with Sanjeev Gupta. This should include any correspondence requesting changes/alterations/clarifications to rep...

FOI partially withheld 90 score 38 working days over deadline correspondence ministers briefings s.30 4 attachments

Published: 2022-11-30
Reference: FOI/202200322226
Directorate: Economic Development Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Pausing of the Super Sponsor Scheme: FOI release

1) 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: 1a) Ivan McKee's meeting with Adrian ...

FOI partially withheld 90 score 20 working days correspondence ministers briefings meetings s.38(1) s.30 s.33 s.34(1) 2 attachments

Published: 2022-11-30
Reference: FOI/202200317018
Directorate: Economic Development Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Correspondence with EU and EU member states on possible future independent Scotland: FOI release

[From 10th May 2021 until 27 October 2022] A copy of all correspondence between the Scottish Government and the European Union on a possible future independent Scotland's membership and membership application to the EU. A copy of all correspondence between the Scottish Government and EU member states on a possible futu...

FOI partially withheld 90 score 19 working days correspondence s.38 s.32 s.30 2 attachments

Published: 2022-11-30
Reference: FOI/202200327153
Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Child protection and safeguarding: FOI release

1) How referrals to GTCS had not been appropriately dealt with before the Children's Commissioner challenged this aspect (inappropriateness of policy, not practice) and Scot Gov CP team intervened. 1b) What specifically was not appropriate in the way GTCS handled child protection and safeguarding concerns raised in rel...

FOI not held 70 score 21 working days over deadline correspondence meetings s.3 s.5 s.6 s.7 s.8 s.17 s.25(1) s.38(1) s.30 s.36 2 attachments

Published: 2022-11-30
Reference: FOI/202200327461
Directorate: Children and Families Directorate
Topic: Public sector

Independence - EU membership discussions: FOI release

Information you have regarding discussions with the European Commission with regard to the EU accepting a membership request made by Scotland should the Scottish government achieve independence. In particular have discussions been held regarding the above? If discussions have been held what is the current position on t...

FOI partially withheld 90 score 24 working days over deadline correspondence ministers s.29(1) s.30 s.32(1) 2 attachments

Published: 2022-11-30
Reference: FOI/202200325019
Directorate
Topic: Public sector