271/2024: Inverclyde Council
Purchase of the AP Jess plot
EIR regulations: 5(1)
Decisions issued by the Scottish Information Commissioner on complaints under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004. Each decision finds for the applicant, for the public authority, or partially upholds the complaint, citing the specific FOISA sections and/or EIR regulations at issue.
Purchase of the AP Jess plot
EIR regulations: 5(1)
Information relating to resignation of Chief Executive
FOISA sections: 1(1), 1(6), 2(1)(a), 2(1)(b), 2(2)(e)(ii), 30(c), 36(2), 38(1)(b)
Spend on meetings, events and venue usage – failure to respond
FOISA sections: 21
The obligation to government legislation
EIR regulations: 5(1), 9, 10(4)(a)
Maintenance of Parks – failure to respond
FOISA sections: 21 EIR regulations: 16
Historical Sheriff Court Records
FOISA sections: 1(1), 21, 22, 25
Communications relating to named companies
FOISA sections: 1(1), 30(c)
Harbour View Development – failure to respond
FOISA sections: 10
Correspondence between Police Scotland and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service regarding alleged financial irregularities/and or fraud by the Scottish National Party (SNP)
FOISA sections: 30(b)(i), 30(b)(ii), 30(c), 34(1), 35(1)(a), 35(1)(b), 38(1)(b)
Documentation from a Local Access Forum meeting
EIR regulations: 5(1), 9, 10(4)(a)
Case notes relating to specific title
FOISA sections: 1(1)
Whether information should be provided free of charge
EIR regulations: 8
Pastoral notes in SEEMiS (creation, altering and deletion of, including metadata)
FOISA sections: 17, 36(2)
Cladding used on the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh
FOISA sections: 39(2) EIR regulations: 5(1), 10(4)(a)
Medical reports on fractures in babies/infants
FOISA sections: 38(1)(b)
Toxicology qualifications of staff
EIR regulations: 10(4)(a)
Decision-making around council tax charging
FOISA sections: 1(1), 15, 17, 38(1)(a)
Responses to an informal consultation
FOISA sections: 1(1), 1(6), 47 EIR regulations: 2(1)Env, 5(1), 11(1), 11(2)
Fire safety and bins
EIR regulations: 5(1)
Handling of a request about the Christie Clock demolition
FOISA sections: 39(2) EIR regulations: 2(1)Env, 7, 7(2)
Whether a request was vexatious
FOISA sections: 14(1)
Information relating to Enforcement Case (alteration to sewage system)
FOISA sections: 39(2) EIR regulations: 5(1), 10(5)(f), 11(1), 11(2)
Use of private investigators
FOISA sections: 18, 34(1)
Death report
FOISA sections: 18, 34(2)(b)(ii)
Correspondence involving evaluators of the procurement process for Hulls 801 and 802
FOISA sections: 1(1), 17
GFG Alliance Guarantee and Reimbursement Agreement – final contingency report prepared by Deloitte (Lochaber Smelter)
FOISA sections: 29(1)(a), 30(c), 33(1)(b), 36(1), 38(1)(b)
Communications of the Chair of the UCEA
FOISA sections: 1(1), 1(6), 3(2)(a)(i), 17, 47
Application concerning Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi
FOISA sections: 1(1), 1(6), 26(a), 47
Identikit e-fits
FOISA sections: 12
Correspondence regarding Homewards Initiative
FOISA sections: 1(1), 39(2) EIR regulations: 5(1)
Safeguarding concerns
FOISA sections: 1(1), 17, 19, 20(3), 21
Demolition of the Christie Clock
EIR regulations: 10(4)(e), 10(5)(b), 10(5)(d), 10(5)(f)
Twinning with Gaza
FOISA sections: 1(1)
Information concerning the early release of Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi
FOISA sections: 1(1), 1(6), 12, 47
Spending of Council Tax
FOISA sections: 1(1)
Information concerning road safety inspections and repairs
FOISA sections: 1(1), 1(6), 2(1)(b), 39(2), 47 EIR regulations: 2(1)Env, 5(1), 16
Affordable housing commuted sum calculation
EIR regulations: 5(1), 10(5)(e)
Farmed salmon and salmon farm mortalities
FOISA sections: 1(1), 1(6), 2(1)(b), 12, 39(2), 47 EIR regulations: 2(1)Env, 5(1), 16
Details about Sentencing Young People guidelines
FOISA sections: 37
Teacher misconduct referrals – internal investigations guidance
FOISA sections: 30(b)(i), 30(b)(ii), 30(c), 35(1)(g), 35(2)(a), 35(2)(b)
Complaints about art exhibition
FOISA sections: 30(c)
Correspondence regarding Healthcare Environmental Services
FOISA sections: 36(1)
The Manse Field, Beith – failure to respond
FOISA sections: 10, 21 EIR regulations: 5(1), 16
COVID-19 data and the 2022 exam diet
FOISA sections: 1(1), 10, 30(b)(i), 30(b)(ii)
Home To School Contract – failure to respond
FOISA sections: 21
Damage and repairs to the A833 in Inverness
FOISA sections: 39(2) EIR regulations: 5(1), 5(2), 10(4)(b)
Correspondence regarding patient safety concerns
FOISA sections: 1(1), 30(c), 36(2)
Work on the entrance and shared driveway at Dalry Cemetery
FOISA sections: 17, 21
Having photographs taken within prisons
FOISA sections: 1(1)
Lochaber Smelter Guarantee and Reimbursement Agreement
FOISA sections: 1(1), 2(1)(b), 30(b)(i), 30(c), 33(1)(b), 36(1)