Women's Health Plan and Endometriosis Advisory Group meetings: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
1. To request all information held regarding the Women’s Health Plan and how this has been implemented and advised upon using a Quality Improvement (QI) method.
2. To request all information held specifically regarding endometriosis within the Women’s Health Plan and thus what steps have been taken to improve women’s health using a Quality Improvement (QI) method.
3. To request all information held regarding the Scottish Government’s Endometriosis meeting held at the end of August, and the minutes/notes taken from this meeting.
Response
1. To request all information held regarding the Women’s Health Plan and how this has been implemented and advised upon using a Quality Improvement (QI) method.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600. Since the request is seeking ‘all information’ relating to the Women’s Health Plan and how the plan has been implemented, the high volume of documents within scope of the request exceeds the upper cost limit of £600. Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.
You may, however, wish to consider reducing the scope of your request in order that the costs can be brought below £600. If you wish to do so, please specify in any new request which aspect of the Women’s Health Plan or its implementation you are interested in, you may also wish to specify a timeframe.
You may also find it helpful to look at the Scottish Information Commissioner’s ‘Tips for requesting information under FOI and the EIRs’ on his website at:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Tipsforrequesters.aspx
2. To request all information held specifically regarding endometriosis within the Women’s Health Plan and thus what steps have been taken to improve women’s health using a Quality Improvement (QI) method.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600. Since the request is seeking ‘all information’ relating to endometriosis within the Women’s Health Plan, the high volume of documents within scope of the request exceeds the upper cost limit of £600. Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.
You may, however, wish to consider reducing the scope of your request in order that the costs can be brought below £600. If you wish to do so, please specify in any new request which particular aspect of endometriosis within the Women’s Health Plan you are interested in, you may also wish to consider specifying a timeframe.
You may also find it helpful to look at the Scottish Information Commissioner’s ‘Tips for requesting information under FOI and the EIRs’ on his website at:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Tipsforrequesters.aspx
3. To request all information held regarding the Scottish Government’s Endometriosis meeting held at the end of August, and the minutes/notes taken from this meeting.
You will find some of the information provided through the previous FOI 202300367252 which was answered on the 15 August 2023. We have provided additional information regarding this meeting in response to this FOI in annex A.
In addition, at the time of this request we did not hold any notes or minutes on the Endometriosis Advisory Group meeting on the 23 August 2023.
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Contact
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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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