Minister for Victims and Community Safety's visit to Hampden Park: FOI Review

Information requested

Orginal Request: 202400440063

With regard to Siobhian Brown’s visit to Hampden Park, Glasgow, on 7/6/24…

1. All details and/or minutes of discussions she had during the visit.
2. All details held regarding how Ms Brown’s visit was arranged and who accompanied her.

Response

I have now completed my review of our response to your request (original case no. 202400440063) under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) for:

The summary of engagement has been provided but presented without context so it is unclear whether this was a contemporaneous note or written more recently. Could you provide the missing detail of when it was generated/written?

Secondly, while a broad description of the process by which ministers may be invited to attend events is provided in the response letter, could you please send me all the correspondence evidencing how Ms Brown came to attend Hampden Park on this occasion? This would be in accordance with my original request.

I have concluded that the original decision should be confirmed, with modification.

In answer to your first review request question the note of this event provided to you on 9 December 2024 was logged as being uploaded onto our Electronic Record and Document Management system, where official documents and records are stored by Scottish Government, on 17 July 2024.

In answer to your second review request question, I have provided the relevant correspondence as Annexes to this letter, which confirms Ministerial attendance at the event in question. Included is the invitation to Scottish Government from the Scottish Football Association and relevant correspondence between officials and private office to that effect.

An exemption(s) under section 38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested. 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.

Information on how Scottish Government routinely handles invitations of this nature was provided to you in our response on 9 December 2024.

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FOI 202400444820 - Information Released - Annex

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