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Complimentary tickets for shows at the OVO Hydro in 2024: FOI release

Published: 22 April 2025
Directorate: Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Topic: Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202500454101
Date received: 21 February 2025
Date responded: 21 March 2025

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Information requested

Please provide me with a list of Scottish Government Ministers who received complimentary or free tickets for shows at the OVO Hydro in 2024.

Please list events by date, including the name of the event, the number of free/complimentary tickets, as well as names of those who received them.

Response

Scottish Government Ministers will on occasion be invited to attend events to engage with stakeholders on government business, these invitations have no commercial value and are not "complimentary or free tickets". Where Ministers attend events in their Ministerial capacity these engagements are proactively published on the Scottish Government website here.

No Scottish Government Ministers received complimentary or free tickets for shows at the OVO Hydro in 2024.

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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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