Production and analysis costs for specific consultations: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for the total cost to produce and analysis the following consultations*.

• Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill: consultation
• Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007: updated Code of Practice and Guidance for Adult Protection Committees

* this response covers 2 of on your request dated 2 October which the Scottish Government have treated this request as a “Multi Area Requests” namely a requests for information where there are 2 or more questions within one email asking for information on different topics.

Response

The answer to your question is detailed in the following table.

Consultation/Code of Practice	Analysis costs	Publication costs	Total cost
Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill: consultation	£72,276.20	£26,786.27	£99,0362.47
Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007: updated Code of Practice and Guidance for Adult Protection Committees	£0	£1,699.03	£1,699.03

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. The production and analysis of these consultations have been made using existing internal staff resource, where costs are listed these are external cost met by the Scottish Government.

This is a notice section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have specific staffing costs related to these consultations.

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