Papers submitted to the Tripartite Alignment Group: FOI release

Information requested

Any papers that were submitted to the Tripartite Alignment Group for discussion at their December meeting.

Response

I enclose a copy of most of the information you have requested under Annex A. The following two papers have been enclosed:

Paper 1 – College Flexibilities (partial release)

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 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.

Paper 2 – Future Positive – College Scoping Document (full release)

Please note; this is an early draft of the paper and the finalised version will be published to the Group webpage: Colleges: Tripartite Alignment Group - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

The Note of the meeting - Tripartite Alignment Group – 12.11.25 was also shared and can be found on the webpage as above.

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FOI 202600506459 - Information released - Annex A

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