Board papers etc.

Dear Mr Wyllie

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request of 24 August 2010. We shall respond to your enquiry in due course.

Regards
Skills Development Scotland
Corporate Office

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Dear Mr. Wyllie,

Request for Information

Thank you for your request of 24 August 2010 under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002. The information requested by you was:

Please provide the information contained in:

(a) your publication scheme,

(b) board minutes and papers in 2009 and 2010.

Please provide a copy of the information in electronic format.

Outside the terms of the Act, I should be grateful if you could assure me
that the publication scheme will be placed on your website?

Our response is as follows:

Our Corporate Office is currently undertaking a review of what will be
included in a revised and harmonised Skills Development Scotland (SDS)
publication scheme. In doing this we will be taking into consideration:
information which we currently publish and/or has been published
previously in line with legacy publication scheme arrangements; new
publication requirements under the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act
2010; previous requests to SDS under section 1 of FOISA; general requests
for information received since SDS's establishment; suggestions, comments
and complaints to SDS that may indicate information which we should
publish in the public interest.

We are liaising with the office of the Information Commissioner to have
our publication scheme approved and placed on our website by the end of
November this year, subject to required approval having been obtained.

Board minutes and papers will also be published on our website, excepting
information exempted under the terms of FOISA. We expect to provide the
information you have requested related to our board in advance of
publishing our overall publication scheme. We will advise you shortly of
the planned date of publication and will provide you with a link to the
relevant section of our website.

Right of Review

You have the right to require us to review this decision. Your request
for review should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this e-mail
and we will reply within 20 working days of receipt of that request.
Following any review, if you still remain dissatisfied then you have the
right to make a formal complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner.

If you require a review of our decision to be carried out, please write
to:

Laura Barjonas

Head of Corporate Support and Government Relations

Skills Development Scotland

Alhambra House

45 Waterloo Street

Glasgow

G2 6HS

If following any review you remain dissatisfied with our response, you are
entitled to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner. Such an
application should be sent to the following address:

Kevin Dunion

Scottish Information Commissioner

Kinburn Castle

Doubledykes Road

St Andrews

Fife

KY16 9DS

I hope this information is helpful to you.

FOI Officer

Skills Development Scotland

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