PUBLICATION SCHEME
Welcome to the Freedom of Information section of our website. You will find here details of our Publication Scheme and the information which is immediately available for viewing on our website.
Publication Scheme
We have adopted the Scottish Information Commissioner’s Model Publication Scheme (MPS). The Scottish Information Commissioner (SIC) approved the MPS on 1 November 2018.
In adopting the MPS, we have committed to:
- using the MPS as our publication scheme, and accepting any updates to the MPS, without amendment
- publishing the information, including environmental information, we hold that falls within the classes of information (see below)
- making sure that the way in which we publish our information meets the MPS principles (see below)
- producing our guide to information
Our
guide to information
sets out:
- the information we publish through the MPS
- how to access it
- whether there is a charge for it
- how to get help to access information
You can call us on 0141 270 7030 and ask us to post a hard copy of our guide to information to you.
The MPS principles govern the way in which we must make information available through our guide to information, and are as follows:
• Principle 1: Availability and formats
• Principle 2: Exempt Information
• Principle 3: Copyright and re-use
• Principle 4: Charges
• Principle 5: Contact details
• Principle 6: Duration
Terms used:
FOISA
The Freedom of Information (S) Act 2002
EIRs
The Environmental Information (S) Regulations 2004
Model Publication Scheme
A standard framework for authorities to publish information under FOISA that the SIC approved
Guide to information
A guide that every public authority adopting the MPS must produce to help people access the information it makes available
MPS principles
The six key principles with which all information published under the MPS must comply
Classes of information
Nine broad categories describing the types of information authorities must publish (if they hold it)
Decisions by the Scottish Information Commissioner:
- Decision 083/2015, Mrs Lilian Gordon and the SCCRC
- Decision 075/2014, Mr W and the SCCRC
- Decision 025/2014, Mr Ian Sutherland and the SCCRC
- Decision 021/2013, Mr Ian Sutherland and the SCCRC
- Decision 134/2012, Mr S and the SCCRC
- Decision 155/2011, William Beck and the SCCRC
- Decision 075/2012, Lucy Adams of the Herald and the SCCRC
