Consultation costs on Health and Agriculture: FOI release

Information requested

‘The total cost to produce and analysis 61 consultations.’.

Response

1. Please find a list in Annex A of most of the information you requested.

2. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance The Scottish Government is unable to provide some of the information you have requested because the information is not held. The reasons why some of the information is not held includes:

a.Civil Servants work on a variety of different topics, projects, or pieces of work at any given time. Time spent on any specific area/project is not automatically accounted, so a calculation of Civil Servants' time (and, therefore, associated cost) cannot be provided.

b.Two of the consultations are out of scope – they are not owned by The Scottish Government (please see Annex A).

c.Some consultations have recently closed. With analysis subsequently on-going, not all costs requested are available at this stage. Where part of the costs requested can be identified then these have been made available, as noted (please see Annex A).

Annex A provides total costs and a breakdown of for each consultation requested.

Where information is not held, a notification under Section 17(1) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 has been listed. Where information is scheduled to be publish within the next 12 weeks, and it reasonable to delay disclosing related information until the planned date of publication, then Section 27 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 has been listed.

Where information is held on staff costs then it has been included.

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FOI 202400434532 - Information Released - Annex A

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