Correspondence on National Treatment Centre, Inverness delays: EIR release

Information requested

1. All briefings, correspondence, emails, letters, notes of meetings and telephone conversations, since 1 March 2022 between Scottish Government Ministers/Officials/Special Advisors and NHS Highland concerning construction delays, the revised completion date and the revised operational date of the National Treatment Centre, Inverness.
2. All briefings, correspondence, emails, letters, notes of meetings and telephone conversations, since 1 March 2022 between Scottish Government Ministers/Officials/Special Advisors and contractors concerning construction delays, revised completion dates and revised operational dates of the National Treatment Centre, Inverness.

Response

In response to the first request:

I can confirm that the Scottish Government holds information falling within the scope of your request. All information held that is in scope, with the exception of exempt material, is attached in the Annex to this letter.

A summary of the disclosed documents included in this response are as follows:

Document number	Document title
01	Document 1 NTCP - Governance - 02. Meeting 01 Programme Group minutes for 18 January 2022: Shared as paper to attendees of March 1st 2022 Programme group.
02	Document 2 RE meeting MSP 10 March 16:16 2022
03	Document 3 March Update - National Treatment Centre - Highland 16 March 2022
04	Document 4 NTC Stocktake Report - Projects Template – Highland 21 March 2022
05	Document 5 NTC-Highland - Progress Meeting 26 Minutes, 06 April 2022
06	Document 6 NTCP - Governance - Programme Group - 03 March 01 Programme Group minutes draft -12 April 2022 Shared as paper to attendees of April 12th 2022 Programme group.
07	Document 7 RE NTC Highland 26 April 2022
08	Document 8 NTC Highland Stocktake Report - Projects Template – Highland Apr 2022 received 05 May 2022
09	Document 9 In Scope NTC Progress Report V2 11 May 2022
10	Document 10 In Scope Highlighted NTCP - Governance - Programme Group - 03 April 12th Programme Group minutes draft - 23 May 2022: Shared as paper to attendees of May 23rd 2022 Programme group.
11	Document 11 Extract from Governance - Programme Group Draft notes - 23 May 2022
12	Document 12 Extract from Balfour Beatty Contractors report May 2022 & June 2022: shared with attendees of NTC Highland progress meeting 10 may 2022 01 June 2022

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because exemptions under Regulation 11 (2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to that information and under Regulation 10(5)(f) – substantial prejudice to interests of person who provided the information.

Regulation 11(2) – applicant has asked for personal data of a third party

An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party 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 exception 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 exception.

Additionally, some information contained within the attached documents has been removed as the information is out of the scope of your request.

In response to your second request:

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance, an exemption under Regulation 10(4) (a) (Information Not Held) this has been applied. This is because the Scottish Government has not had direct contact with Balfour Beatty regarding the completion date of the National Treatment Centre in Inverness since 1 March 2022 up to and including the date of your request.

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EIR - 202200303481 - Documents 1-12

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