Scottish Ministers and Alan Werritty correspondence concerning the Grouse Moor Management report: FOI release

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All drafts of the Werritty report into grouse moor management communicated between Prof Alan Werritty (or his team) and Scottish Government Ministers.

All correspondence between Scottish Government Ministers and the author (or his team), from the time of submission, and receipt of the first draft by Scottish Ministers, to the date of publication of the final report.

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I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.

Some of the information you have requested is available from https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-201900007008/. Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is
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We received no draft copies of Professor Werritty’s report on Grouse Moor Management, but the final report is available at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/grouse-moor-management-group-report-scottish-government/

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