Higher history pass rate communications: FOI release

Information requested

Any communications (including but not limited to emails; WhatsApp messages; and letters) sent to the Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth concerning the Higher history pass rate this year. Please also include any responses made by Ms Gilruth to these communications and any messages she herself has sent on this topic.

Response

I enclose a copy of the information you requested.

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.

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 contact details, 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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FOI 202400429066 - Information Released - Annex

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