Visitor levy amendment to housing bill: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
I would like to see an internal and external correspondence from the presiding officers office about thedecision to block the visitor levy amendment from the housing bill.
Response
In response to your request please see the attached document which contains an email chain in scope of your request. Information which is not in scope has been redacted.
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of 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
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG