Correspondence from landlords to Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning: FOI release

Information requested

Copies of all emails to Housing Minister Kevin Stewart from Landlords. Please could I request the following under the freedom of information legislation. From 1
November 2020 to present: (the date of the request 7 January 2021) Copies of all emails to Housing Minister Kevin Stewart from landlords.

I would be looking for any type of landlord, be that social or private. On your second question, if it can narrow the scope it would be particularly looking for landlords getting in touch about the effects of coronavirus on their properties/leases/tenants/livelihoods etc.

Response

Attached is a copy of some of the information you requested, as detailed in the table below. 

Doc. No.	Description of information
Annex1	Message from Scottish Parliament website
Annex2	No evictions
Annex3	CoVID 19 - support for HMO PRIVATE LANDLORDS
Annex4	Landlord Eviction Rights
Annex5	Eviction Notices Scotland

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(s) under section s.38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information.

An exemption under section(section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. the 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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FOI202100133477 - Annex 1-5

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