FOIs submitted to the Scottish Government regarding Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture: FOI release

Information requested

1. The number of FOIs submitted to the Scottish Government regarding Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture from 19 May 2021 to present.

2. The number of those FOIs cleared by Angus Robertson before release/publication.

3. The number of those FOIs that have not yet received a response.

Response

We have interpreted your question number 3, “the number of those FOIs that have not yet received a response” to mean a subset the total number of FOIs submitted to the Scottish Government in the Cabinet Secretary’s portfolio (i.e. a subset of question 1), and the response had not issued on 22 December 2022 (date of your request).

1. 432
2. 82
3. 20

Additional information

I am providing some additional information which might be helpful to you, on the process that we follow in managing FOI requests. Our decision making criteria set out the process we follow. When a FOI/EIR request is received by the Scottish Government, the FOI Unit will make an assessment as to whether the request is “sensitive” (where a Minister will make the decision on releasing information) or “routine” (where an official will make the decision on releasing information) using the criteria for decision-making.

The sensitive or routine field is recorded within our case management system. In order to provide a response to your request, we have used this field to identify requests for information within the relevant Cabinet Secretary’s portfolio. There may be cases where the field has not been updated to reflect a change in the handling of the request from sensitive to routine or vice versa.

About FOI

The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. View all FOI responses at http://www.gov.scot/foi-responses.