Chief Economist Directorate
Office of the Chief Economic Adviser (OCEA) Division
E: xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxx
James Trice
Via email
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Your ref:
Our ref: FOI/17/00669
24 April 2017
REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002 (FOISA)
Dear Mr Trice
Thank you for your request dated 24 March 2017 under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).
Your request
Please provide all documents, information, emails, data sets, data, sources,
resources, held and used in the production of GERS 2015-16
Response to your request
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the costs of
locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit
of £600. This is because an initial assessment of your request has identified 33 files
containing 459 documents. This was only an initial search for information, and a wider
search would likely identify a larger number of documents.
Even based on the limited number of documents from the initial search, it is estimated that
reviewing and compiling information from the documents would involve 6 working days and
exceed the upper cost limit. Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to
comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying
would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under
section 12.
You may, however, wish to consider reducing the scope of your request in order that the
costs can be brought below £600, for example, by asking for a specific type of information.
You may also find it helpful to look at the Scottish Information Commissioner’s ‘Tips for
St Andrew’s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG
www.gov.scot
requesting information under FOI and the EIRs’ on her website at:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Tipsforrequesters.aspx.
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 the Chief Economist, St Andrews House,
Regent Road, Edinburgh, EH1 3DG, or emailing
xxxx.xxxxxxxxx@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 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
Iain Pearce
Economic Statistics
Office of the Chief Economic Adviser
Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG
www.gov.scot
