Transport Scotland Corporate Risk Register and Brexit Register: FOI release

Information requested

1. Copies of the organisation’s most up-to-date Corporate Risk Register, including the date this was last updated.

2. Copies of any Brexit risk assessment or risk register carried out by the organisation.

Response

1. Please find attached the Transport Scotland Corporate Risk Register.

2. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide the information you have requested because an exemption under section 29(1)(a) of FOISA (formulation or development of government policy) applies to the information as it relates to the development of the Scottish Government’s policy on the delivery of responsibilities within devolved competence.

This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption. We recognise that there is a public interest in disclosing information as part of open, transparent and accountable government, and to inform public debate. However, there is a greater public interest in high quality policy and decision-making, and in the properly considered implementation and development of policies and decisions. This means that Ministers and officials need to be able to consider all available options and to debate those rigorously, to fully understand their possible implications.

Their candour in doing so will be affected by their assessment of whether the discussions on the delivery of responsibilities within devolved competence will be disclosed in the near future, when it may undermine or constrain the Government’s view on that policy while it is still under discussion and development.

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