First Minister word frequency: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002


Information requested

Within all the minutes for all the minuted meetings attended by the First Minister between 1st July and present day, how many occurrences are there of each of the following:

  1. Independence
  2. Independent
  3. Economy
  4. Economic
  5. ‘Economic Growth’
  6. Grow
  7. Grows
  8. Growth
  9. Referendum
  10. Indyref
  11. Indyref2

Response

A search was carried out by staff that identified 28 meeting minutes with the First Minister between the dates 1 July and 30 August, which contained instances of the 11 words in your information request. This data is summarised in the table below. It is important to note that, in line with existing practices, these are minutes generated by a scribe and as such not all language will have been captured verbatim.

Word list

Total number of time the following words appear

1. Independence

2

2. Independent

1

3. Economy

24

4. Economic

10

5. Economic Growth’

0

6. Grow

0

7. Grows

0

8. Growth

12

9. Referendum

0

10. Indyref

0

11. Indyref2

0

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Contact

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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

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