Plans for proactive publication of relevant data and ongoing communications plans information: FOI release

Information requested

“Under The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, I request sight of;"
1. "All information held about 'plans for proactive publication of relevant data"
2. "All information held about 'ongoing comms plans"

Response

The first part of your request, I have provided you with all of the information we hold relating to plans for proactive publication of relevant data.

• Document 01: Weekly building use stats - 29 October 2025 (R)
• Document 02: Proactive publication of building use data for SG core staff - 11 November 2025 (R)
• Document 03: Building Occupancy data for SG core staff - 17 November 2025 (R) Document 04: Occupancy MI publication - proposal - 25 November 2025 (R)
• Document 05: Building Occupancy Stats - gov_scot publication - 28 November 2025 (R)

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, e.g. names/contact details of individuals, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. 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.

The second part of your request, I can confirm that all of this information is already available and therefore I am applying Section 25(1) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 exempting information from this response on the basis that it is already publicly available.

This has been released previously Scottish Government hybrid working policy: FOI release - gov.scot under the annex document. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.

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FOI 202500496088 - Information Released - Annex

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