Publication - FOI/EIR release

Institute for Fiscal Studies correspondence: FOI release

Published: 7 July 2025
Directorate: Financial Management Directorate
Topic: Money and tax, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202500457996
Date received: 19 March 2025
Date responded: 16 April 2025

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

Information requested

All correspondence between the Scottish Government and the Institute for Fiscal Studies from the last three months.

Response

I have enclosed the information you requested.

An exemption under section (section 38(1)(b) (Personal data relating to third party) of FOISA applies to all the information you have requested, with the result that individuals' names, email addresses, phone numbers and specific job titles have been redacted from the emails released. Personal data is exempt from disclosure if disclosure would contravene any of the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the UK GDPR and in section 34(1) of the DPA 2018. 50. The exemption is absolute, so it is not subject to the public interest test in section 2(1) of FOISA (see section 2(2)(e)(ii) of FOISA.)

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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