SIC Internal audit reports relating to the Learning and Justice Directorate – Mr Tom Gordon of the Sunday Herald (Mr Gordon) asked the Scottish Ministers (the Ministers) for all of the information contained in 15 internal audit reports relating to their Learning and Justice Directorate and its predecessor directorates. The Ministers responded by withholding all of the reports in their entirety in terms of section 30(c) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA). Following a review, Mr Gordon remained dissatisfied and applied to the Commissioner for a decision.
Following an investigation, the Commissioner found that the Ministers had largely failed to deal with Mr Gordon’s request for information in accordance with Part 1 of FOISA, by wrongly withholding the majority of the requested information in terms of section 30(c) of FOISA.
However, she accepted that the exemption in section 30(c) had been correctly applied to certain information contained in two of the withheld reports. She required the Ministers to disclose the withheld reports, subject to the redaction of the exempt information.
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[2012] ScotIC 085 – 2012)
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Updated: 31 October 2022; Ref: scu.459801
