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National pack · 24 August 2026

FOI pack — national government

Asks for Scottish Government budget and transparency, delayed council annual audits, NHS boards and NDPBs. Read the published file first. Missing is not zero. Asylum industrial FOIs — AASC, hotels, Mears, New Scots — are not this national pack.

Closed from papers

6

Responded

0

Not sent

7

Do not send

2

Do not send

  • FOI to COSLA as if FOISA public authority — Generally not a FOISA public authority. Ask SG and councils.
  • Guest names, room lists, children’s identities — s.38 / s.40. We do not want it.

Closed from published papers

No FOI required. The file is already public.

Scottish Government Housing Statistics

Closed — published

Confirm published continuous HL2 households-in-TA annual snapshot for Scotland last 10 years (or series breaks / HL3 plans).

Gap closed 24 Aug 2026: HL supporting workbook loaded. FOI not required. HL3 from 2026/27. Reconfirmed published/responded in FOI-PUBLICATION-SWEEP 24 Aug 2026.

Related chapter: Homelessness

Published file

Office for National Statistics / Scottish Government Labour Market Statistics

Closed — published

Point to official published CSV for Scotland 16-64 employment and 16+ unemployment rates over last 10 years on comparable LFS basis.

Gap closed 24 Aug 2026: ONS LF42 / YCNN / LF5K 2016–2025 loaded. FOI not required. Reconfirmed published/responded in FOI-PUBLICATION-SWEEP 24 Aug 2026.

Related chapter: Work

Published file

Public Health Scotland

Closed — published

Confirm preferred published download for monthly estimated individuals waiting (outpatient vs inpatient separately) and diagnostics; any official guidance prohibiting summing types.

Gap closed FOI-PUBLICATION-SWEEP 24 Aug 2026: preferred downloads are PHS open data Stage of Treatment + Diagnostics CSVs; bulletin 28 Jul 2026 gives typed individuals estimates and explicit do-not-sum guidance. Figures already in figures.json / people_series. FOI not required.

Related chapter: Health

Published file

Scottish Government Budget / Finance

Closed — published

Confirm whether Level 2 Total SG (and Fiscal Resource if held) outturn for 2015-16 and 2016-17 are published elsewhere comparable to Outturn comparison workbook columns that start at 2017-18.

Gap closed FOI-PUBLICATION-SWEEP 24 Aug 2026: Total SG outturn 2015-16 £36,930.9m and 2016-17 £37,297.1m published in Budget 2023-24 Annex D Table D.01 (and earlier Annex D). Loaded to figures.json / money_lines.json. Fiscal Resource comparable series for those years still NOT FOUND in same table — note only. Series-break risk vs Budget 2026-27 workbook (starts 2017-18).

Related chapter: Budget and outturn

Published file

Scottish Government

Closed — published

(Released) SWISS-FM / Integration Support Service award to SRC — contract value and related SRC grants.

Published FOI release: SRC ISS 30 months £8m from 1 Oct 2025; also lists 2025/26 SRC grants. Full contract file still gap (foi.pack.SG-02). Reconfirmed published/responded in FOI-PUBLICATION-SWEEP 24 Aug 2026.

Related chapter: Charities and NGOs

Published file

Scottish Government

Closed — published

(Released) NSRIDP match funding / programme detail FOI.

Corroborates AMIF/NSRIDP split — see machinery 13-intl-orgs. Domestic match ≠ international funder cash. Reconfirmed published/responded in FOI-PUBLICATION-SWEEP 24 Aug 2026.

Related chapter: Scottish Government

Published file

Not sent — national pots

Delayed council AARs, SG transparency months, NHS boards, NDPBs. One subject per email.

Clackmannanshire Council

Not sent

Confirm URL when 2024/25 audited annual accounts and Audit Scotland AAR are published; confirm usable reserves at 31 March 2025 against final audited statements (SLGFS LFR provisional £27.099m already noted).

PARTIAL — usable reserves provisional in SLGFS; AAR/audited accounts still outstanding. missing≠zero.

Related chapter: Annual accounts

East Dunbartonshire Council

Not sent

Confirm URL when 2024/25 audited annual accounts and Audit Scotland AAR are published; confirm usable reserves at 31 March 2025 vs final audited statements (SLGFS LFR provisional £21.172m noted).

PARTIAL — reserves provisional in SLGFS; audited AAR still not_sent.

Related chapter: Annual accounts

Stirling Council

Not sent

Confirm URL of final audited 2024/25 annual accounts and Audit Scotland AAR when published; confirm usable reserves at 31 March 2025 against audited statements (SLGFS unaudited LFR £51.637m noted).

PARTIAL — draft/SLGFS present; audited AAR gap remains.

Related chapter: Annual accounts

Scottish Government

Not sent

Confirm when monthly Government spend over £25,000 reports for July 2025 onward will be published on the gov.scot collection.

Still NOT PUBLISHED for Jul 2025 onward on SG collection. Prefer published CSV over FOI. machinery F1 confirms.

Related chapter: Spend over £25k

Scottish Government

Not sent

SWISS-FM / Integration Support Service contract file: tenders, evaluation criteria, KPIs, subcontractors, user numbers, pricing (non-exempt) — beyond published £8m award.

Partial public: FOI-202500493316 published £8m award — full contract file still NOT IN PUBLIC FOI LOGS. See foi.released.sg.swiss_fm.

Related chapter: Charities and NGOs