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Road Expo Scotland briefing notes and speech prepared for the Cabinet Secretary for Transport: FOI release

Published: 17 January 2025
Topic: Public sector, Transport
FOI reference: FOI/202400443548
Date received: 4 December 2024
Date responded: 9 December 2024

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Information requested

Please provide all briefing notes and packs that were prepared for Fiona Hyslop for the Road Expo Scotland 2024 that took place on 27 and 28 November 2024.
Please provide the speech that Fiona Hyslop delivered at this event, along with earlier drafts that were changed by the Cabinet Secretary and her aides.

Response

Pleases see Annexes A-G to this response for copies of the information you requested.

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 of individuals and companies, 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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