Freedom of Information

The Freedom of Information Act (Scotland) 2002 (FOI) enables any person to obtain information from Scottish public authorities.

The Act applies to all Scottish public authorities including: Scottish Government and its agencies; Scottish Parliament; Local Authorities; NHS Scotland; Universities and further education colleges; and the Police.

Access to Information

Public authorities have to allow access to the following information:

The provision, cost and standard of its service.
Factual information or decision-making.
The reasons for decisions made by the public authority.

The Council already places a large amount of information in public buildings such as libraries.

Finding Information

In addition, a considerable amount of information about the Council’s services and activities (including our Publications Scheme and Publications List) is published on the Council website. When looking for information about the Council, please make full use of this website to find out whether the information you’re looking for is already available on-line.

You can search our website through the on-screen navigation headings, or by using the ‘Search’ or ‘A to Z’ or 'Service Directory' facilities.

Making a Request

If you are unable to find the information by these means, the Council is happy to assist you through its Freedom of Information Service.

All Freedom of Information requests should be sent to Freedom of Information.

Publication scheme

Under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, the Council is obliged to adopt and maintain a Publication Scheme.

The aim of the Publication Scheme is to set out the classes of information the Council publishes or intends to publish, how that information can be obtained, and whether or not that information is available free of charge.

The Publication Scheme is approved by the Scottish Information Commissioner, and is reviewed periodically by the Council.

The Classes of Information

We publish information that we hold within the following classes. Once information is published under a class we will continue to make it available for the current and previous two financial years.
Where information has been updated or superseded, only the current version will be available. If you would like to see previous versions, you may make a request to us for that information.

If you cannot find the information you are looking for you can use this website's 'Search' or 'A to Z'.

The classes are:

Class 1: About the authority.
Class 2: How we deliver our functions and services.
Class 3: How the authority takes decisions and what it has decided.
Class 4: What the authority spends and how it spends it.
Class 5: How the authority manages its human, physical and information services.
Class 6: How the authority procures goods and services from external providers.
Class 7: How our authority is performing.
Class 8: Our commercial publications - we do not hold or publish any information under this class.
Class 9: The Council’s Open Data Plan.

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