Financial Memorandum for the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill correspondence: FOI release

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


Information requested

Any correspondence between the Bill Team in the Scottish Parliament and civil servants relating to the drafting of the Financial Memorandum for the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill.

Response

I enclose a copy of the information you have requested, contained in the following documents:

Document 1
Emails between the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament relating to the subject of your request

Document 2
Draft version of the Financial Memorandum for the Bill attached to an email dated 14 March 2023

Document 3
Draft version of the Financial Memorandum for the Bill attached to an email dated 30 March 2023

Document 4
Draft version of the Financial Memorandum for the Bill attached to an email dated 13 April 2023

Document 5
Draft version of the Financial Memorandum for the Bill attached to an email dated 13 April 2023

Document 6
Final version of the Financial Memorandum for the Bill attached to an email dated 20 April 2023

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some the information you have requested. 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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Contact

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Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
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Edinburgh
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