Documentation about a four-day working week for civil servants: FOI release
- Published
- 20 October 2025
- Topic
- Money and tax, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202500475671
- Date received
- 11 July 2025
- Date responded
- 8 August 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
All documentation held by the Scottish Government, including correspondence sent and received (including internal), minutes/notes from meetings, briefings and analysis, about a four-day working week for civil servants, from the last three months.
Response
I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested at Annex A.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because the following exemption(s) apply to that information:
- Section 25 (1)Info otherwise accessible
- Section 38(1)(b) Personal data relating to third party
- Section 27(1) Information intended for future publication
- Section 30(b)(i) Free and frank provision of advice
- Section 30(b)(ii) Free and frank exchange of views
The reasons why these exemption(s) applies are explained in Annex B contained in this letter.
About FOI
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- File size
- 402.3 kB
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- 170.6 kB
Contact
Please quote the FOI reference
Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG