THE information watchdog has expressed her "dis-appointment" at the Scottish Government's continuing efforts to withhold public information.
Ministers withheld 18 Health and Social Care Directorate internal audit reports from publication, despite "strongly worded advice" from Information Commissioner Rosemary Agnew to reconsider.
She criticised ministers for attempting to adopt a "class-based blanket approach" to non-disclosure, which contradicted her own advice, that of the courts, and even the Government's own internal guidance.
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