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E: xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxx
Christine Pease
3 May 2017
Dear Ms Pease
REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002 (FOISA)
Thank you for your request dated 31 March 2017 under the Freedom of Information (Scotland)
Act 2002 (FOISA).
Your request
You asked for the following:
‘How many people work for your organisation.
How many of these people will authorised by warrant to conduct interception, equipment
interference (hacking to obtain information) or bulk communications data acquisition under the
Investigatory Powers Act 2016
How many warrants have been applied for under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016?
How many warrants were granted?
How many investigations has your organisation carried out so far under the Investigatory
Powers Act 2016 and what were they for?’
Response to your request
We currently have 179 people employed by Food Standards Scotland.
For the other questions you have asked, in this instance Food Standards Scotland does not
hold that information.
Your right to request a review
If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an
internal review of the response, by writing to Mr Geoff Ogle, Chief Executive, Food Standards
Scotland, 4th floor, Pilgrim House, Aberdeen AB11 5RL, email
xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxx. Your
review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made
within 40 working days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review
Pilgrim House, Old Ford Road, Aberdeen, AB11 5RL
www.foodstandards.gov.scot
and tell you the result, within 20 working days from the date when we receive your review
request.
If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the
Scottish Information Commissioner. More detailed information on your rights is available on the
Commissioner’s website at:
www.itspublicknowledge.info. Yours sincerely
Stuart Keith
Openness & Correspondence Officer
Food Standards Scotland
Pilgrim House, Old Ford Road, Aberdeen, AB11 5RL
www.foodstandards.gov.scot