Correspondence from business owners or employees in hospitality industry: FOI release

Information requested

Between 21 October and 22 October 2020 how many letters, emails or other forms of correspondence were received by the Scottish Government and/or Scottish Government Ministers (Including Nicola Sturgeon) from anyone identifying as an business owner or employee in the hospitality industry?

Please provide copies of this correspondence where it exists.

Response

We have identified four emails or other forms of correspondence from people identifying as business owners or employees in the hospitality industry.

I attach a copy of the correspondence.

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to small amount of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. names/contact details of individuals, 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.

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