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Published: 04 September 2023

Scottish Police Authority - Publication Scheme

Keywords : public body duty

Report Summary

This is the Authority’s Guide to Information, which lists the information that we routinely publish to fulfil our obligations under Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. We follow the model publication scheme.

This page also shows the information we produce as part of our public task, as required under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.

We do not charge for our information save what is stated under lists and registers below.

To access the full document please open the PDF document above.

To view as accessible content please use the sections below. (Note that some tables and appendixes are not available as accessible content). 


Classes of information

The Authority 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Where information has been updated or superseded, only the current version will be available.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.

The classes of information are:

Class 1: About the Scottish Police Authority

Class 2: How the Authority deliver our functions and services

Class 3: How the Authority take decisions and what we have decided

Class 4: What the Authority spend and how we spend it

Class 5: How the Authority manage our human, physical and information resources

Class 6: How the Authority procure goods and services from external providers

Class 7: How the Authority is performing

Class 8: The Authorities commercial publications

Class 9: The Authorities Open Data


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