Personnel in specific Marine Scotland business areas: FOI release

Information requested

“There have been major changes in personnel at Marine Scotland Aquaculture and Wild/recreational fish sections. Please could you provide a list of contacts and their areas of responsibility?

Please also could you provide the name of the head of Marine Scotland Science?”

Response

I enclose some of the information you requested in the following table.

Name:	Area of responsibility:
[Currently being recruited]	Head of Marine Scotland Science
Donald Carmichael	Head of Aquaculture and Recreational Fisheries Division (until 31 March 2022)
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]
Jill Barber	Head of Aquaculture Development
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Business Management
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Environment, Planning and Engagement
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Environment, Planning and Engagement
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Environment, Planning and Engagement
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Environment, Planning and Engagement
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Environment, Planning and Engagement
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Environment, Planning and Engagement
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Environment, Planning and Engagement
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Vision
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Vision
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Vision
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Consenting and Special Projects
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Consenting and Special Projects
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Consenting and Special Projects
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Consenting and Special Projects
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Fish Health and Welfare
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Fish Health and Welfare
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Fish Health and Welfare
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Aquaculture Fish Health and Welfare
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Salmon and Recreational Fisheries
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Salmon and Recreational Fisheries
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Salmon and Recreational Fisheries
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Salmon and Recreational Fisheries
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Salmon and Recreational Fisheries
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Salmon and Recreational Fisheries
[Redacted - Section 38(1)(b)]	Salmon and Recreational Fisheries

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 an exemption under section 38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information. The Scottish Government has a general policy about the disclosure of staff names which is to withhold the names of officials below Senior Civil Service (SCS) level. As a result, only Scottish Government staff at SCS grade are named in the above table. The reasons why that exemption applies are explained below.

Reasons for not providing information
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. names, 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.

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