Transparency index
“Under FOI, please provide me with stats and figures relating to “casserole compliance” in 2025. Please also explain how every FOI case is quality assured that the same “compliance documents” are filled out and stored in the case file”.
Please could you provide the organisational structure for the Transformation Directorate including Director, Director-1 and Director-2 levels. For Director-1 level, please include whether they are an FTE or a contractor. For Director-2 le
“..copies of any documents or correspondence to or from your domain ("@gov.scot") regarding First Minister John Swinney's visit to the Shetland Isles from 22-24 February. Please could I ask for any documents or correspondence between 1st J
Whether the funding provided to the Crown Office Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) is ringfenced and whether the prosecution sector receives a specific amount of funding from the overall COPFS funds.
The following recorded information held by your department regarding assurance processes for software based data erasure of end of life IT equipment. For clarity, this request relates solely to software based data destruction. Please exclud
How much has the Scottish Government spent to date on the judicial review of the Scottish Prison Service Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody Operational Guidance, which began on 3 February?
Relating to land used for shooting purposes, in particular, the announcement during your recent budget that current reliefs are being removed. I would appreciate details on the following please: - What prompted this change of policy and wh
Recorded information held by your department regarding assurance processes for software based data erasure of end of life IT equipment. For clarity, this request relates solely to software based data destruction. Please exclude physical des
What has the Scottish Government done to find out who was responsible for Covid creation? What action has the Scottish Government taken internationally to prevent similar outbreak in the future? What evidence the Scottish Government holds
The total amounts Education Scotland has spent across the financial years 2021–22 to 2025–26 (to date) on corporate functions (broken down by function type), overtime, repairing or replacing equipment, written‑off inventory and IT equipment
1. How much the asylum seekers bus passes scheme has cost since its implementation.Please state what these costs are in each year (e.g. reimbursement for bus companies, cost of implementing policy etc. 2. How many times an asylum seeker bu
1. For each financial year since 2020-21, please provide the amount spent on marketing by Brand Scotland, if possible, broken down by category (ie digital, broadcast, print, etc). 2. Please also provide the budgets for this spending in the
Information about the Democracy Matters Steering Group including if the group was formed, when this group met and for how long, when they are scheduled to meet next, who are members of the group, if it has produced a report, who it was repo
1. How much money has been invested overall in the first home fund? 2. When did applications open and close for the scheme? 3. How many new builds were bought under the scheme? 4. How many new homes overall were purchased under the schem
I would like statistics on the number of FOIs which were dealt with by Ministerial Private Pffice staff and the number of those FOIs which then needed to be reviewed in 2025. For avoidance of doubt, this is an FOI Review. I would also like
1. A list of all meetings between the consultancy firm Global Counsel and directors or senior civil servants within the authority in the time period 1 January 2022–present. For each meeting, please also provide list of attendees full meet
The following questions based on the communication issued by Gillian Russell, Director of Health Workforce, to NHS Board Chief Executives on 30 September 2025. 1. Is Ms Russell now assured that each NHS Board has in fact obtained their own
In light of the information pertaining to Peter Murrell it is clear that there might have been some fraudulent activity with regards to SNP accounts. Can you please advise and reassure us that the expenses of the former first minister Nicol
1. The total number of recorded communications sent from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) (including the Lord Advocate’s office, Solicitor General’s office, private secretaries, and/or COPFS officials) to the First Min
Whether the Scottish Government has provided any guidance to local authorities on single-sex spaces in leisure centres within the last five years. If the answer to (1) is yes, please could you provide a copy of that guidance or corresponden
In reference to the express article linked here: https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-special-advisers-oversawhundreds-35647218 1) How many FOI requests from January 16th 2025 to January 15th 2026 were deemed "routine"
1. The number of FOIs dealt with by the Scottish Government in a) 2025 b) 2024 c) 2023 d) 2022. 2. The number of FOIs not responded to within the 28 day time frame in a) 2025 b) 2024 c) 2023 d) 2022. 3. The number of FOIs not responded to
Request for information 1: How many staff work in health and social care for disability benefits? Request for information 2: What grades are these staff? Request for information 3: How many staff are in each grade? Request for informatio
Please provide all correspondence between the First Minister and Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for Scotland, from 1 January 2026 to date.
Can you confirm if the cameras on the A77 are the same as the cameras under investigation as being done with National Highways.
The total cost/total budgeted cost of running the campaign entitled “We are Scotland - Scottish Government’s Community Cohesion Campaign” broken down by type of cost – for example, television advertising, outdoor advertising, graphic creati
1. A list of companies invited to make a tender to appoint a Video Relay Service Provider. 2. Why Sign Solutions, an English based company, was selected over other companies who are mainly Scottish based companies? 3. Who made the decisio
Could you supply me with how many working days Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture has spent in Scotland and how many days he has spent outwith Scotland on government business in 2023.
Could you supply me with how many working days Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture has spent in Scotland and how many days he has spent outwith Scotland on government business in 2025.
So far this month (January 2026) and up to the date of this FOI, could you supply me with how many working days Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture has spent in Scotland and how many days he has spent outwith Sc
Of the Scottish Government’s target to build 110,000 affordable homes by 2032, with 10% of them being rural, please can you: 1. Outline how many homes, which have been completed within this target since 2023, have been in rural parts of Sc
The following information in relation to the Scottish prison population: For each of the statistical years listed below: - 2020–21 - 2021–22 - 2022–23 - 2023–24 1. The number of men aged 50 years and over held in Scottish prisons. 2. Wh
Information in relation to credit cards that have been issued to staff working for the Scottish Government including Ministers. 1) Please advise the total expenditure on these cards? 2) Can this please be given from year 2017 until the pr
Specifically, I request information relating to City of Glasgow College and the Scottish Education Exchange Programme (SEEP) for the 2025/26 financial year, as follows: Whether City of Glasgow College submitted one or more applications for
How many SNP Ministers have work phones, and how many don't? Could you supply a full list of Ministers and a full list of work devices they have?
1. The number of employees in your organisation with any of the phrase’s “diversity”, “inclusion”, “equality” or “equity” in their job title in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date. Please also provide
The Energy Savings Trust have recently published the latest edition of the Community and Locally Owned Energy in Scotland report covering the figures for 2025: https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/report/community-and-locally-owned-energy-in-s
Answers to four questions which all relate to the aftermath of remarks made in parliament by Angela Constance about Professor Alexis Jay on 16th September 2025.
1. Any risk assessments, analyses, modelling, or briefing papers that consider the impact of increased HGV speed limits on cyclist safety, including collision likelihood and/or collision severity, in the context of Safe System principles.
Please provide a list of all meeting National Ugly Mugs (NUM) has had with the Scottish Government, including Ministers, since 2020. Please also provide minutes from these minutes including who attended.