Special Adviser's annual leave: FOI release

Information requested

May I request the following information under freedom of information legislation: 

• Dates of annual leave taken by any Scottish Government Special Adviser between 14 February 2023 and 27 March 2023. 
• The date of when a request to take annual leave was submitted by a Special Adviser who has taken off annual leave during this time. 

Response

Please find the dates of annual leave requested and the dates these requests were made. 

Due to GDPR I have not included the names of the Special Advisers that the leave and request dates apply to. I have instead only listed the dates below: 

Dates of annual leave requested	Date request for this leave was made
3 - 6 March 2023	7 Feb 2023
10 - 16 Feb 2023	18 Jan 2023
7 March 2023	7 March 2023
15 Feb 2023	1 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023	10 Feb 2023
10 March 2023	25 Feb 2023
17 March 2023	10 March 2023
17 March 2023	22 Feb 2023
16 -17 Feb 2023	05 Dec 2022
27 Feb - 06 March 2023	05 Dec 2022
16 -17 Feb 2023	29 Jan 2023
13 - 28 Feb 2023	18 Jan 2023
13 – 17 Feb 2023	11 Jan 2023
17 Feb 2023	16 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023	19 Jan 2023
27 Feb - 03 March 2023	19 Jan 2023
23 - 27 Feb 2023	Verbally requested, no record of date request made
24 Feb 2023	13 Feb 2023
13 - 14 Feb 2023	09 Feb 2023

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