Publication - FOI/EIR release

Secondment of Policy Director Jonnie Hall: FOI release

Published: 4 January 2018
Directorate: Environment and Forestry Directorate
Topic: Farming and rural, Public sector

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

FOI reference: FOI/17/02323
Date received: 11 October 2017
Date responded: 21 December 2017

Information requested

You asked for any and all information related to the secondment of Jonnie Hall, Policy Director of the NFUS, to the Scottish Government to advise on agricultural matters related to Brexit negotiations and to post-Brexit agricultural policies.

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.

Annex	Title	Format	Size
A	Email correspondence	PDF	1.0MB
B	Email correspondence	PDF	622KB
C	Secondment Agreement	PDF	266.3KB
D	Rhoda Grant MSP letter to Fergus Ewing MSP	PDF	78.3KB
E	Fergus Ewing MSP letter to Rhoda Grant MSP	PDF	56.9KB
F	First Minister's Questions extract	PDF	229.7KB
G	Parliamentary Question lodged 20 Feb 2017	PDF	271.1KB

Some of the information you have requested is available from:

The Scottish Parliament website

Cross Party Group on Crofting Minutes 15 March 2017

Parliamentary Question by A Wightman MSP – Feb 2017

First Ministers Questions 16 March 2017 – Question by A Wightman MSP

Newspaper Article

The Courier – 15 Dec 2016

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