Transport Scotland - Mitchell Library building subsidence queries: FOI release
- Published
- 7 January 2026
- Topic
- Public sector, Transport
- FOI reference
- FOI/202500485708
- Date received
- 22 September 2025
- Date responded
- 7 October 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
1. Has the Mitchell Library, via Glasgow Life or Glasgow City Council, contacted Transport Scotland regarding insurance claims for works to repair subsidence of the Mitchell Library building?
2. If so, what stage is this claim(s) at?
3. Is Transport Scotland disputing liability for costs to repair subsidence of the Mitchell?
Response
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Transport Scotland does not have the information you have requested. Transport Scotland does not have this information because we have not been contacted in relation to insurance claims for works to repair subsidence of the Mitchell Library building. Transport Scotland do not, therefore, hold any such information and so cannot provide it.
However, you may wish to contact Glasgow City Council at Contact Us - Glasgow City Council
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that Transport Scotland does not have 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
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