Parliamentary question costs: FOI release
- Published
- 4 March 2025
- FOI reference
- FOI/202500452185
- Date received
- 10 February 2025
- Date responded
- 25 February 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
- How much does it cost in 2024-25 for Scottish Government officials to respond to one parliamentary question?
- How much did it cost in 2023-24 for Scottish Government officials to respond to one parliamentary question?
Response
The most recent exercise to estimate the cost of answering a Parliamentary Question was conducted in 2008 and estimated the cost at £98.51. However, this estimate is now considerably out of date.
Scottish Government officials intend to undertake work to update the estimate in the future. As a result, the Scottish Government does not currently hold the information you have requested.
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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Contact
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Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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