Publication - FOI/EIR release

Social Security Scotland Executive Advisory Body minutes and agendas: FOI release

Published: 4 September 2019
Topic: Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/19/01867
Date received: 31 July 2019
Date responded: 29 August 2019

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

Information requested

Under FOISA, please provide all drafts and copies of Social Security Scotland Executive Advisory Body minutes and agendas relating to the Tuesday 28 May 2019 meeting.
This should include versions of the minutes and agendas not published at https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/what-we-do/minutes-meetings-and-agendas, and drafts provided to members before and at the meeting they were approved for.
Please also provide the notes taken for the aiding of producing the minutes, as well as any correspondence relating to changes to the minutes.

Response

Some of the information you have requested is available online. Please see below links to the published minutes and agenda for the Social Security Scotland Executive Advisory Body on 28 May 2019:
Published Minutes from 28th May
Published Agenda from 28th May
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.
I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested. 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 an exemption under section 38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to the information. The reasons why this exemption applies is explained in the annex of this letter.

ANNEX
REASONS FOR NOT PROVIDING INFORMATION
s.38(1)(b)
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested, such as names or initials. Disclosing this information 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.

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