Funding for Intercultural Youth Scotland charity: FOI release

Information requested

• Copies of all contracts and/or agreements regarding funding for the charity Intercultural Youth Scotland, since it was incorporated in 2021.
• All correspondence between the Scottish Government and this charity, since January 1, 2023. Please include copies of any reports etc commissioned by the charity which the government was given sight of.

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested in the format of a Microsoft Word document.While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance:

the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600. The reason for this is that to locate and retrieve that information we would need to conduct a search of all of the records of the Scottish Government. It may help if I explain that we file our information according to the subject matter, not by reference to organisations with whom we have corresponded. Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.You may, however, wish to consider reducing the scope of your request in order that the costs can be brought below £600. For example, you could specify the subject matter of the correspondence you are interested in or restrict your request to a specific business area of the Scottish Government or specific year, as this would allow us to limit the searches that would require to be conducted. You may also find it helpful to look at the Scottish Information Commissioner's 'Tips for requesting information under FOI and the EIRs' on his website at: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Tipsforrequesters.aspx.

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 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.

Please see Annex A which contains the information you have requested.

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FOI 202600505548 - Information released - Annex A & Annex B

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