Review of Government FoI Handling and Record Keeping

As an amendment to motion S5M-12861 in the name of Rhoda Grant (Review of Government FoI Handling and Record Keeping), leave out from “a number of areas” to end and insert “response times for journalists' FoI requests have improved but can improve further; notes that the Scottish Government has accepted the commissioner’s recommendations in full and will develop an action plan as required by the commissioner to be published in September 2018; welcomes the proposed extension of FoI law to registered social landlords, and agrees that the Scottish Government should consult on proposals to further extend coverage of Scotland’s freedom of information legislation, for example, to companies providing services on behalf of the public sector.”