A health board has accused Scotland’s information tsar of being ‘emotional’, ‘selective’ and ‘not professional’ after he condemned its decision to withhold costs associated with a landmark ‘single sex ...

An intervention has been launched into the Scottish government's use of informal messaging Official action has been launched by a watchdog into the Scottish government's use of informal messaging. The ...

The Scottish Government wrongly withheld information that was part of an investigation into whether former first minister Nicola Sturgeon breached the ministerial code, the Information Commissioner ...

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While he “quaked at the imbecility” of it, as he put it in his memoirs, the evidence strongly suggests that major authorities like the Scottish Government and NHS Fife, might put it rather more ...

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Scotland’s information watchdog has launched an inquiry into the mass deletion of WhatsApp messages sent during the pandemic by Nicola Sturgeon, other SNP ministers and their civil servants. David ...

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POLITICAL parties should be subject to freedom of information laws to help unearth their “murky” inner workings, Scotland’s transparency tsar will say. Scottish Information Commissioner David Hamilton ...

Official action has been launched by a watchdog into the Scottish government's use of informal messaging. The Scottish Information Commissioner, who oversees freedom of information (FOI) laws, stated ...