This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 82)
Thank you for advising me of the delay.
Please see:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tender_process_for_801802#incoming-1889887
Thank you for that, Mr Kingston
Dear Mr Patterson,
Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in providing you with a response to your Internal Review request. The Department...
Dear Mr Paterson
We have shared your further email with the auditors. They will, in future,
consider how to report these matters.
Kind reg...
Dear Mr Paterson
Following my email in September 2020 I said I would update you once the
Scottish Government audit was complete. The 2019/20...
The loan was increased to £16.3 million prior to the company entering administration
Administrators Proposals & Statement of Affairs published
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Mr Paterson,
On behalf of Glasgow Prestwick Airport, I wholly refute your accusations - my statement at the point of my review was accurate.
For yo...
Dear FOI,
Richie Morgan
Health, Safety and Environmental Manager
Your response is a sham. Your organisation is continuing to make FALSE stateme...
Letter from FMEL former management team to parliament, 4 December 2020
https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Rural/email_to_Convenor_RECC_041220_with_attach...
Dear Ian Metcalfe,
Thank you for providing a detailed reply to my FOI request.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Paterson
"BiFab lashes out at Scottish Government’s claims"
http://www.hebrides-news.com/bifab-hits-out-271120.html
Most of the information relating to BIFab was eventually published under this FOI:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bifab_limited_ps10_million_...
Dear Mr Paterson,
Please find attached our response to your request for review.
Many thanks
Jnine Beckett
Finance Director
CalMac Ferries Ltd...
This is the story of how the government tried to hide the real purpose of the £30 million loan.
By obfuscation after obfuscation.
Dear Mr Paterson,
Thank you for your query about the Financial Transparency (EC Directive) Regulations 2009. We understand that this is in reference t...
Corrected link:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-18-02869-appeal/
Dear Mr Paterson
In response toy your Request for a review dated 15 February 2020 I attach
our response
Yours sincerely
Ian Metcalfe...
Good Morning Mr Paterson,
Please find attached the response to your internal review of FOI request detailed below.
Kind regards
Annette
Annette Gre...
Dear Mr Paterson
Your request for a review has been completed.
The response to your freedom of information request included information redacted unde...
Dear Victoria McAleese, Quality, Governance & Data Officer, Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited
Regrettably the abuse of personal data relating to FOI...
Good afternoon Mr Paterson,
Please see attached a response to your request for an internal review of your recent FOI request.
Kind Regards
Annette...
Dear Mr Paterson
Thank you for your Freedom of Information requests dated 16 September 2019
and 28 September 2019. Our annual audit report on th...
Dear Mr Forgie,
The following decision by the Scottish Information Commissioner should be of interest to you:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Ap...
Response "Regular meeting and telephone conversation take place between the CEO’s of both companies. There are no minutes but very regular ongoing dial...
This person's 188 annotations
Please see:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tender_process_for_801802#incoming-1889887
Thank you for that, Mr Kingston
Government fraud and corruption on a grand scale. The skillful crafting of the high level public communications on this topic show there are no accide...
The loan was increased to £16.3 million prior to the company entering administration
Administrators Proposals & Statement of Affairs published
htt...
Response backstops
Routine request: 25 January 2021
Complex request: 19 February 2021
All good questions. The impairment was £12.4m and is shown on page 13 and 27 of the 2020 annual accounts:
https://find-and-update.company-informatio...
Coverage of CMAL and its activities by the business press is non existent. Routine scrutiny of CMAL by parliament is also non existent.
By impairi...
'In a 129-page report published today, the Committee said the evidence exposed a “lack of robust due diligence” on the part of procurement agency Caled...
Management of procurement of two new ferries a ‘catastrophic failure’, says Holyrood Committee
https://www.parliament.scot/newsandmediacentre/116694....
Letter from FMEL former management team to parliament, 4 December 2020
https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Rural/email_to_Convenor_RECC_041220_with_attach...
"BiFab lashes out at Scottish Government’s claims"
http://www.hebrides-news.com/bifab-hits-out-271120.html
"BiFab lashes out at Scottish Government’s claims"
http://www.hebrides-news.com/bifab-hits-out-271120.html
** Key FOI for background on BiFab **
Most of the information relating to BIFab was eventually published under this FOI:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bifab_limited_ps10_million_...
Blatant abuse of Freedom of Information legislation by GPA.
They don't even attempt to justify withholding information by referencing sections of FOI...
The BiFab scandal will continue unless and until someone in the media or parliament questions to original co-investment 'deal' between DF Barnes and th...
Yes. BiFab are already making use of the extension – extensions are automatically granted. Parliament’s economy committee are currently considering t...
DF Barnes response to parliament:
https://www.parliament.scot/S5_EconomyJobsFairWork/Inquiries/20200911_-DF-Barnes.pdf
"DF Barnes has invested heav...
The Committee webpage for the ferries Inquiry is reporting that the call for evidence closed on the 7 February 2020. This would have acted as a deterr...
https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Rural/General%20Documents/RECC_ANONYMOUS_8.pdf
This is the story of how the government tried to hide the real purpose of the £30 million loan.
By obfuscation after obfuscation.
The written submissions (as of 24 August 2020) to the Scottish Parliament's Ferries Inquiry into this monumental debacle:
https://www.parliament.scot...
At last! Somebody asking some questions....
Government
https://www.parliament.scot/S5_EconomyJobsFairWork/Inquiries/20200630EEFWtoSG.pdf
DF Barnes...
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Dear Mr Johnstone
If I can be of assistance, I’ve had a great deal of experience dealing with sham responses to FOIs from the SG. If I may, I would u...
