Total cost Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh incurred: FOI release

Information requested

Total costs incurred by the board of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 2014 to the present day. This includes all secretariat staffing costs, daily board member fees and expenses, events, publications and office-running costs. You also requested a record of all engagement between board members and Scottish Government ministers and Cabinet Secretaries from 2014 to the present day.

Response

Most of the information you requested regarding financial accounts is available from the following website links:

• https://www.rbge.org.uk/media/3932/annual-accounts-2013-2014.pdf
• https://www.rbge.org.uk/media/3933/annual-report-and-accounts-2014-15.pdf
• https://www.rbge.org.uk/media/3934/annual-report-and_accounts_2015-16-1.pdf
• https://www.rbge.org.uk/media/3938/signed-annual-report-and-accounts-rbge-2016_17-1.pdf
• https://www.rbge.org.uk/media/7643/2017_18-final-annual-report-and-accounts-signed-v2-1.pdf
• https://www.rbge.org.uk/media/6964/annual-report-and-accounts-signed-2018-19-accessible.pdf
• https://www.rbge.org.uk/media/7862/2019_20_annual_report_and_accounts_signed.pdf

Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested for the financial year 2020/21. Once the accounts have been reconciled and audited they will be available from Accounts | Corporate Information | What We Do | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (rbge.org.uk).

Attached is a record of the information you requested on all engagement between Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh board members and Scottish Government ministers and Cabinet Secretaries from 2014 to present day. Most of this information is also available from the Scottish Government website. Links provided below:

• https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20170401123936/http://www.gov.scot/About/People/14944/Events-Engagements/MinisterialEngagements
• https://www.gov.scot/collections/ministerial-engagements-travel-and-gifts/

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