Provision of digital ear thermometers in baby boxes: FOI release

Information requested

Copies of any correspondence involving Scottish Government ministers and/or officials from the last two years in which there is discussion about the provision of digital ear thermometers in baby boxes.

Response

I enclose a copy of correspondence involving the Scottish Government and Scottish Ministers in relation to digital ear thermometers supplied in Scotland’s Baby Boxes in Annex B of this letter. However, 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 section 38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information. The reasons why this exemption applies is explained in Annex A of this letter.

ANNEX A
An exemption under section38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested as follows:
This information relates to personal data relating to a third party and applied in the following cases:

• Scottish Government officials below the Senior Civil Service.
• Names of individuals who did not give permission for release.

It would not be the expectation of these individuals that their personal information would be released 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.
I am satisfied that the information that has been withheld constitutes the ‘personal data’ of the individuals concerned, as defined in section 1(1) of the DPA.
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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FOI-202000012185 Information released - Annex B

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