Scottish Budget and NorthLink Ferries correspondence: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
Please provide all correspondence between Shona Robison, her advisors, and Hannah Mary Goodlad, from 20 January 2025 to 20 January 2026, regarding the Scottish Budget and NorthLink Ferries.
Response
I enclose a copy of some of the information you have requested. Where information has been redacted the applicable exemptions have been noted in the document and below.
Section 38(1)(b): An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to a small amount of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, ie 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.
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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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