Mr Paterson
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 72)
Finance & Constitution Committee: Correspondence - Loans & Equity Investments
Partially successful.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC485103/filing-history
Corrected link:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-18-02869-appeal/
Scottish Government: EU Market Economy Investor Principle (MEIP) compliance
Response by Audit Scotland to Mr Paterson on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Paterson
In response toy your Request for a review dated 15 February 2020 I attach
our response
Yours sincerely
Ian Metcalfe...
Business with US Government departments, agencies or branches
Response by Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Mr Paterson on .
Partially successful.
Good Morning Mr Paterson,
Please find attached the response to your internal review of FOI request detailed below.
Kind regards
Annette
Annette Gre...
Scottish Government's investment in BiFab
Response by Audit Scotland to Mr Paterson on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Paterson
Your request for a review has been completed.
The response to your freedom of information request included information redacted unde...
Contract award for 801 and 802: Due Diligence - Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited
Follow up sent to Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited by Mr Paterson on .
Long overdue.
Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited
Regrettably the abuse of personal data relating to FOI applicants by the Scottish Government and Scottish Governm...
Income received from the US Department of Defense or its agencies
Response by Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Mr Paterson on .
Refused.
Good afternoon Mr Paterson,
Please see attached a response to your request for an internal review of your recent FOI request.
Kind Regards
Annette...
Scottish Government: Valuation of loans & equity investments - 2018/19
Response by Audit Scotland to Mr Paterson on .
Partially successful.
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...
Government loans and unpaid interest: October 2019
Follow up sent to Glasgow Prestwick Airport by Mr Paterson on .
Refused.
The following decision by the Scottish Information Commissioner should be of interest to you:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/ApplicationsandDe...
Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited
Partially successful.
Response "Regular meeting and telephone conversation take place between the CEO’s of both companies. There are no minutes but very regular ongoing dial...
Estimated delivery dates: Vessels 801 and 802
Follow up sent to Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Limited by Mr Paterson on .
Partially successful.
It is only a matter of time before the law catches up on the Cabinet Secretary. Luckily for you, the issues were before your time.
Yours sincerel...
EC State Aid guidance:
"88. When a transaction is carried out under the same terms and conditions (and therefore
with the same level of risk and rew...
Information regarding delivery of vessels 801 and 802: latest position
Response by Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited to Mr Paterson on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Paterson,
I write in regard to your recent request for a review (dated 06 December)
of the response sent to you by Caledonian Maritime...
Investigations into the concealment or destruction of information
Response by Police Scotland to Mr Paterson on .
Successful.
OFFICIAL
Good Afternoon
Please find attached the Service response to your request
Kind Regards
Information Management
Police Scotland, Clyde Gatewa...
£30m loan to Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited, June 2018
Partially successful.
Macrocom (1067) Limited >> Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Limited
Macrocom (1070) Limited >> Ferguson Marine (803 - 805) Limited
Macrocom (1068) Limi...
Scottish Government: Auditor General's Transparency Statement
Follow up sent to Audit Scotland by Mr Paterson on .
Successful.
Thank you for responding to my FOI request.
It is disappointing to note that progress on the actions is at best 'mixed' despite the Permanent Secr...
Contracts with the United States Department of Defense
Response by Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Mr Paterson on .
Information not held.
Good afternoon Mr Paterson,
Please see attached the responses to you five separate FOI requests.
Kind Regards
Annette
Annette Greening
FOI Manager...
Cabinet Ministers: Training Records (FOISA & Ministerial Code)
Information not held.
Ministers keep no training records for FOISA or ministerial code - demonstrating low commitment to compliance with either.
PRIVATE EMAIL ACCOUNTS
L...
Contracts with the United States Department of Defense
Response by Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Mr Paterson on .
Information not held.
Good Morning Mr Paterson,
Please see attached the acknowledgements to your FOI requests.
Kind Regards
Annette
Annette Greening
FOI Manager
Glasgow...
Contracts with the United States Department of Defense
Response by Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Mr Paterson on .
Information not held.
Good Morning Mr Paterson,
Please find attached the response to your FOI request dated 10 October 2019.
Kind Regards
Annette
Annette Greening
FOI M...
Administrators' Proposals:
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC485060/filing-history/MzI0NjUxNjUzOGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0...
Shareholder Agreements - private sector companies
Partially successful.
Burntisland Fabrications Ltd
Section 3.1(c) of Shareholder Agreement: Publish accounts within 4 months of year end (iow by April).
Current status:...
Dear Mr Paterson,
Good morning. My name is Phil Coates and I have been asked to conduct the
internal review into you recent Freedom of Information (...
Why was the interest in the event of default on the terms of the loan agreement just 17% (just 2% above the loan agreement rate of 15% pa). How would...
Information Commissioner:
"The Commissioner believes that, had proper consideration been given to the information already in the public domain and wh...
This person's 160 annotations
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/performance_statistics_publicati#comment-85960
Their stated policy is the publish all FOI response on the same day information is released to the respondent. They very rarely achieve this target an...
Corrected link:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-18-02869-appeal/
https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-18-02869appeal/
£15m loan: "This loan was provided on commercial terms, with a market rate of interest and time...
Finance & Constitution Committee: Correspondence - Loans & Equity Investments
Partially successful.
Fascinating!
The link to the Contract Notice is particularly useful:
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT18...
Finance & Constitution Committee: Correspondence - Loans & Equity Investments
Partially successful.
DRAFT VERSION 1
1. The £45 million in payments made by Scottish Ministers to FMEL were not and never were “commercial loans”.
The two loan agreemen...
Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited
Partially successful.
Response "Regular meeting and telephone conversation take place between the CEO’s of both companies. There are no minutes but very regular ongoing dial...
Scottish Government's investment in BiFab
Partially successful.
From Grant Thornton report:
BiFab valuation = £8.6 million
JV Driver (67.6%) = £6.6 million
Scottish Ministers (32.4%) = £2 million
JV Driver ga...
Scottish Government's investment in BiFab
Partially successful.
Typo: should read 29 November 2018 NOT 2019.
Finance & Constitution Committee: Correspondence - Loans & Equity Investments
Partially successful.
Useful. I don't know which is worse - the flouting of EU state aid rules, the concealing of information under the pretense of "commercial confidential...
Finance & Constitution Committee: Correspondence - Loans & Equity Investments
Partially successful.
They haven't published all the documents - and it will be the ones they haven't published that will contain the most useful information.
EC State Aid guidance:
"88. When a transaction is carried out under the same terms and conditions (and therefore
with the same level of risk and rew...
2018 Annual Report now published (18 December 2019, 2 1/2 months after statutory deadline).
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC213282/filin...
Estimated delivery dates: Vessels 801 and 802
Partially successful.
Macrocom (1067) Limited >> Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Limited
Macrocom (1070) Limited >> Ferguson Marine (803 - 805) Limited
Macrocom (1068) Li...
£30m loan to Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited, June 2018
Partially successful.
Macrocom (1067) Limited >> Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Limited
Macrocom (1070) Limited >> Ferguson Marine (803 - 805) Limited
Macrocom (1068) Limi...
Finance & Constitution Committee: Correspondence - Loans & Equity Investments
Partially successful.
CMAL payments to FMEL
October 2015: Contract signing
2015/16: £33.9m
2016/17: £27.2m
2017/18: £21.6m
2018/19: £1.0m
Total: £83.7m (informa...
£30m loan to Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited, June 2018
Partially successful.
Tim Hair, Turnaround Director, at Ferguson Marine, appointed director of the following wholly owned and newly established Scottish Government companies...
Estimated loan balance at end of October 2019: £43.7m
Estimated unpaid interest at end of October 2019: £4.3m
Total owed to Scottish Government =...
Scottish Government: EU Market Economy Investor Principle (MEIP) compliance
Partially successful.
Letter from the Permanent Secretary, Scottish Government to Public Audit Committee of Scottish Parliament covering, amongst other things, Market Econom...
Cabinet Ministers: Training Records (FOISA & Ministerial Code)
Information not held.
Ministers keep no training records for FOISA or ministerial code - demonstrating low commitment to compliance with either.
PRIVATE EMAIL ACCOUNTS
L...
The extent to which the Scottish Government are going to prevent information on loans / investments to Burntisland Fabrications Limited entering the pu...
Finance & Constitution Committee: Correspondence - Loans & Equity Investments
Partially successful.
I wonder how many people can get a "commercial loan" where they pay no interest until the end of the loan term and have a secret mechanism that switche...
The Permanent Secretary of the Scottish Government informing the Public Audit Committee (November 2018) that the Scottish Government will act on the Au...
Finance & Constitution Committee: Correspondence - Loans & Equity Investments
Partially successful.
If the SG 32.4% stake is now worth £2 million, then JV Driver's 67.6% share must be worth > £4 million, not bad for a £5 initial investment!
Finance & Constitution Committee: Correspondence - Loans & Equity Investments
Partially successful.
Thanks for info on GPA. Seen FOI reply - looks like an SG trained response (stonewalling). Unlikely to get anything unless appeals to SIC. SIC is im...