First Minister correspondence on mental health waiting times: FOI release

Information requested

The contents of any emails or letters to Nicola Sturgeon (including emails to either the First Minister or SNP account) in 2019 on the topic of mental health waiting times.

Response

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 relating to third party) of FOISA applies to that information. The reasons why that exemption applies are explained in the Annex to this letter.

Results: Please find attached all the results that were within the scope of the above FoI.

Annex - Reasons for not providing information
An exemption applies

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested (the personal data of a third party).

Disclosing the personal data would contravene any of the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the GDPR (“the first condition”).

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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FOI/19/02350 - Information Released

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