Our publication scheme

If the information you want is not in our publication scheme, you have the right to request it from us. The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 gives you a right of access to the information we hold (whether we publish it or not), subject to certain exemptions. Find out more about how to make an information request.

The Commissioner's charging policy for information is available below to download.

• The Commissioner's FOI and Re-use Charging for Information Policy

There is no charge for downloading information from our website. If we send published information to you, we may ask you to pay the costs of providing it to you e.g. photocopying and postage.

We may charge for unpublished information provided in response to a request for it. Where it would cost us £100 or less to provide the information to you, we will not impose a charge. If it costs us between £100 and £600 to provide the information, we may ask you to pay 10% of that part of the cost. So, for example, if it costs us £400, then we may charge up to £30 (i.e. first £100 is free, then we may charge 10% of the cost between £100 and £400).

Where it would cost more than £600 to provide information to you, we may ask you to pay the costs as set out above up to £600 and the remaining costs over £600 in full.

There is no charge for requests for a person's own personal data (subject access request).

We are pleased to provide advice and assistance to help requesters frame their requests to reduce the possibility of charges for information.

All the information on this website is available through the Open Government Licence. This gives you the right to re-use the information, subject to important conditions.

If you want to re-use other information, for example, that we provided in response to a request, you will find the following helpful:

• Statement of Public Task under the Re-use of Public Sector Information
• Regs 2015 Statement and guidance on making Re-use requests and complaints
• Re-use request form