Cost to produce and analyse various consultations: FOI release

Information requested

The total cost to produce and analyse the following consultations:

1. Revising small area statistics geographies: data zones and intermediate zones
2. Changing the International Territorial Level Geography for Scotland
3. New build developments: delivering gigabit-capable connections

Response

The answer to your question is provided in the table below:

Consultation	Cost
Revising small area statistics geographies: data zones and intermediate zones	£526.88
Changing the International Territorial Level Geography for Scotland	£602.78
New build developments: delivering gigabit-capable connections	£2267.74

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.

Specifically, the costs set out above do not include Scottish Government staff costs. This is because the Scottish Government does not record the time allocated to particular tasks by its staff. The development of these consultations was carried out by officials in the Digital Directorate within Scottish Government. These officials have been involved in many other projects in addition to developing these consultations as part of their normal duties. For these reasons, we are unable to provide staff costs associated with these consultations.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.

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