Correspondence related to Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council Bill, from 1 September 2023 to 11 January 2023: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
All correspondence received by Ministers and officials, and responses issued, related to and about the Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council Bill, from 1 September 2023 to 11 January 2023”. Please note, we have interpreted the date range for this request to be 1 September 2023 to 11 January 2024.
Response
I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested.
Some of the information you have requested is available from the Scottish Parliament website, please see the following hyperlinks:
- Employment Injury Assistance Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit | Scottish Parliament Website
- Employment Injury Assistance Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit Response | Scottish Parliament Website
- Social Security Spend | Scottish Parliament Website
An exemption(s) under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested. This exemption applies to personal data of a third party, i.e. the names and contact details of individuals, 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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Contact
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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
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