What its position is on making the Scottish Police Federation compliant with data protection and freedom of information legislation, in lin…

The Freedom of Information (FoI) acts provide for access to information held by public authorities and Trade Unions and Staff Associations are not generally covered by these acts. The decision to add the Police Federation of England and Wales to FoI legislation was made by the Home Office and there are currently no plans to add the Scottish Police Federation to the Scottish FoI legislation. Data Protection legislation does apply to the Scottish Police Federation and a link is attached below to their Privacy Statement, which explains how they processes personal data: https://spf.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SPF-Data-Protection-Privacy.pdf .