Resource Spending, Capital Spending and Medium-Term Financial Strategy : FOI release

Information requested

1. All correspondence (including emails, attachments, typed or handwritten notes, letters, notes/records of phone calls, minutes of meetings, briefings, WhatsApp messages or otherwise) between the Scottish Government and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service regarding the Scottish Government’s Resource Spending Review. Please limit the dates of correspondence to 1 April 2022 to the present date.

2. All correspondence (including emails, attachments, typed or handwritten notes, letters, notes/records of phone calls, minutes of meetings, briefings, WhatsApp messages or otherwise) between the Scottish Government and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service regarding the Scottish Government’s Medium Term Financial Strategy. Please limit the dates of correspondence to 1 April 2022 to the present date.

3. All correspondence (including emails, attachments, typed or handwritten notes, letters, notes/records of phone calls, minutes of meetings, briefings, WhatsApp messages or otherwise) between the Scottish Government and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service regarding the Scottish Government’s Capital Spending Review update. Please limit the dates of correspondence to 1 April 2022 to the present date.

Response

1

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because exemptions under sections 25 (information otherwise accessible); s.27(1) (information intended for future publication); s.29(1)(a) (policy formulation); s.29(1)(b) (Ministerial communications); s.30(b)(i) (free and frank provision of advice); s.30(b)(ii) (free and frank exchange of views); s.30(c) (otherwise prejudice effective conduct of public affairs); and s.38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA apply to that information. The reasons why these exemptions apply are explained in Annex A to this letter.

Please see the information at Annex B in response to the this part of your request.

2

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for. The reasons why we don’t have the information are explained in the Annex A to this letter. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.

3

Any correspondence regarding the Capital Spending Review update While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because exemptions under sections 25 (information otherwise accessible); s.27(1) (information intended for future publication); s.29(1)(a) (policy formulation); s.29(1)(b) (Ministerial communications); s.30(b)(i) (free and frank provision of advice); s.30(b)(ii) (free and frank exchange of views); s.30(c) (otherwise prejudice effective conduct of public affairs); and s.38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA apply to that information. The reasons why these exemptions apply are explained in Annex A to this letter.

Please see the information at Annex B in response to the this part of your request.

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FOI - 202200303701 - information released - Annex A

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FOI - 202200303701 - information released - Annex B

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