S&TCS FOI Requests

The Scottish Information Commissioner has issued yet another decision [1] against Scottish Ministers for their failure to comply with freedom of information law.

This is now added to seven other decisions obtained in the last 15 months by S&TCS to do with requests for information about salmon farms.

 

Eight decisions from the Scottish Information Commissioner on aquaculture in just fifteen months

The latest decision relates to information about an escape of 300,000 salmon reported in 2016 by The Scottish Salmon Company’s farm at its Scadabay on Harris [2].

Guy Linley-Adams said:

“While we welcome this latest decision, the Scottish Information Commissioner has required Scottish Ministers to consider whether it would be appropriate to apologise to S&TCS for their failure to comply with the statutory timescales for response. 

 But this is not the first time.

 In lay terms, Scottish Ministers simply being told to say sorry, and do what they should have done many weeks or months ago, does not yet appear to be having the desired effect of ensuring they comply with the law on freedom of information”. 

 

The Scottish Information Commissioner’s other decisions obtained by S&TCS in the last 15 months:

 

43/2018	Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland	Scottish Environment Protection Agency	Information relating to the use of sea lice medicine	For applicant	26 Mar 2018
013/2018	Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland	Scottish Environment Protection Agency	Correspondence with Marine Scotland	For applicant	31 Jan 2018
010/2018:	Salmon and Trout Conservation	Scottish Environment Protection Agency	Report on the environmental impact of sea lice medicine	For applicant	29 Jan 2018
199/2017	Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland	Scottish Environment Protection Agency	Information concerning sea lice medicine	For applicant	30 Nov 2017
191/2017	Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland	Scottish Ministers	Report on the environmental impact of sea lice medicine	For applicant	20 Nov 2017
142/2017	Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland	Scottish Ministers	Control and reduction of sea lice on fish farms	For applicant	04 Sep 2017
063/2017	Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland	Scottish Ministers	Control of sea lice on fish farms: failure to respond within statutory timescales	For applicant	02 May 2017

 

[1] Decision 120/2018: Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland and the Scottish Ministers

[2] Scadabay Inspections: failure to respond within statutory timescales - 6 August 2018