Viva Engage posts containing certain phrases: FOI release

Information requested

Any posts on the Scottish Government All-Company group on Viva Engage since 1 November 2024 that contain any of the following phrases:

• Tories
• Trump
• Supreme Court
• Elon
• Starmer
• Transgender
• Terf
• Conservatives
• Labour
• SNP
• Farage
• Reform
• Woke
• Regan
• Netflix
• Work from home
• WFH
• Working from home

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.

Please note that I have provided descriptions of how I have interpreted any words or phrases which have multiple meanings.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested, where the words or phrases didn't return any results.

• Search: “Tories”: No results
• Search “Trump”: No results
• Search “Supreme Court”: Information provided
• Search “Elon”: No results
• Search “Starmer”: No results
• Search “Transgender”: Information provided
• Search “Terf”: No results
• Search “Conservatives”: No results
• Search “Labour”: No results (interpreted as “The Labour Party”, other meanings of “labour” excluded from search results)
• Search “SNP”: No results
• Search “Farage”: No results
• Search “Reform”: No results (interpreted as the “Reform UK” political party, other meanings of “reform” excluded from search results)
• Search “Woke”: No results (with the exception of the past tense of wake i.e. “I woke up from sleep..” excluded from search results)
• Search “Regan”: No results
• Search “Netflix”: Information provided
• Search “Work from home”: Information provided
• Search “WFH”: Information provided
• Search “Working from home": Information provided

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information you have requested because it is personal data of a third party, for example the names of staff who are in grades below the Senior Civil Service and health conditions.

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FOI 202500468506 - Information released - Annex

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