Question reference: S6W-25079
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 8 February 2024
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Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 March 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide full details of the
timetable leading up to the redacted version of the Hamilton Report being
issued to the public on 22 March 2021, including (a) when the report was
delivered to it by James Hamilton, (b) when information was redacted from the
report and (c) whether there was more than one process of redaction.
Answer
In preparation for issuing Mr Hamilton’s report, civil servants seconded to the Secretariat applied draft redactions in the period 15 to 21 March 2021. The Scottish Government received Mr Hamilton’s final report on 22 March 2021 at 00:02. The report was then redacted by civil servants in the Organisational Continuity Team for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the court orders made by Lord Woolman and Lady Dorrian and to remove any personal data where processing of personal data would not be lawful under data protection law.
The report was published on the same day, 22 March 2021, in line with the commitment given to Parliament on 4 March 2021 by Nicola Sturgeon , at https://www.gov.scot/publications/independent-report-by-james-hamilton-on-the-first-ministers-self-referral-under-the-scottish-ministerial-code