Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 19 March 2026 [Draft]
19 Mar 2026 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
First Minister’s Question Time
Scottish Information Commissioner (Legal Advice)
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to reports that the Scottish Information Commissioner is taking legal advice on further legal action against the Scottish Government and his comments that he “can no longer trust the Government to handle this information unsupervised”. (S6F-04758)
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6. Katy Clark (West Scotland) (Lab)
Lab
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to reports that the Scottish Information Commissioner is taking legal advice on further ...
The First Minister (John Swinney)
SNP
The Scottish Government has answered more than 13,000 freedom of information requests since the start of 2024, and 95 per cent have been responded to on time...
Katy Clark
Lab
The commissioner has said that there have been “unjustified delays”, a “wall of silence” and “preposterous” excuses, that the Government’s handling of inform...
The First Minister
SNP
We need to be clear that we are talking about two distinct issues. As I understand it, the commissioner’s comments on further legal action relate to legal ad...
Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
Con
The problem with the First Minister’s defence is that it ignores the fact that David Hamilton, the Scottish Information Commissioner, has spent his entire ca...
The First Minister
SNP
The innuendo of Mr Fraser’s remarks is not lost on me, but I will quote the commissioner again:“I think the Scottish Government in general is actually very g...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
We move to constituency and general supplementary questions.