Grouse Moor Management Group full cost of Werritty review: FOI release

Information requested

A breakdown of the FULL financial cost of the recent Werritty review on grouse moor management. You've previously provided me with information about Prof Werritty's hourly rate and the number of work days he was paid for. However, I would also like details of ALL expense claims paid to Professor Werritty and any of his colleagues (either panel members of special advisors) for work conducted as part of this review. If any further costs have been accrued by anyone else, please include those too.

Response

In our response to your previous FOI request for “how many days at £250 per day did Professor Werritty claim” we advised that Professor Werritty claimed for 95 days work. This number was slightly inaccurate, as some of Professor Werritty’s per diem costs had been attributed to expenses in error.
Professor Werritty claimed for 108.5 days, the payment amounts are laid out in the table below.

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to a small amount of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, ie the names of some of those involved in the Grouse Moor Management Group 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.
Some of the expenses have been grouped at the bottom of the table, such as estate expenses, where we are unable to provide the identity of individual estates:
 

Name	Expense type	Amount (£)	Total (£)
[Redacted]	Per diem	6250.00	6481.25
	Expenses	231.25
[Redacted]	Expenses	47.70	47.70
[Redacted]	Per diem	11875.00	13605.24
	Expenses	1730.24
[Redacted]	Per diem	2000.00	5351.17
	Expenses	3351.17
Alan Werritty	Per diem	27125.00	28380.90
	Expenses	1255.90
Alison Hester	Expenses	1017.05	1017.05
Colin Reid	Expenses	492.90	492.90
Calum MacDonald	Per diem	3000.00	3412.85
	Expenses	412.85
Des Thompson	Expenses	0.00	0.00
Susan Davies	Expenses	0.00	0.00
Karen Rentoul	Expenses	178.90	178.90
James Hutton Institute	Per diem	13200.00	13200.00
Strutt and Parker	Per diem	3000.00	3000.00
The Royal Society Edinburgh (inc. Saltire Hospitality)	Expenses	7807.61	7807.61
Estate visit expenses	Expenses	2749.20	2749.20
Non RSE Meetings	Expenses	271.51	271.51
Simon Lester (Meeting 3)	Expenses	241.97	241.97
		Total	86238.25

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