Date received: 27 July 2022
Date responded: 3 August 2022
Information requested:
Please give me a list of human rights due diligence checks your organisation has
conducted since the publication of the Scottish Government document, Guidance on
due diligence: human rights, detailing in each case whether or not you proceeded with an investment relationship or business agreement following the undertaking of these checks. Please also detail any instances of non-compliance with the guidance that have been reported. If unable to provide such a list, please confirm for me whether your organisation was previously aware of or has ever given consideration to this guidance, including whether you are aware of having been notified of it by a representative of the Scottish Government or other public body.
Please also tell me how many investment relationships or agreements your organisation has engaged in since June 2018. This request relates to the types of relationship outlined in the aforementioned guidance as meriting a due diligence check: “any activity which could lead to an investment relationship or agreement with a third party” (source: Guidance on due diligence: human rights – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)).
If this request is too wide or unclear, please let me know. If you are unable to complete the second part of this request, relating to investment relationships engaged in since June 2018, I would be grateful if you could still work to answer the first part.
Redress Scotland’s response:
1. Please give me a list of human rights due diligence checks your organisation has conducted since the publication of the Scottish Government document, Guidance on due diligence: human rights, detailing in each case whether or not you proceeded with an investment relationship or business agreement following the undertaking of these checks. Redress Scotland has not conducted any human rights due diligence checks, having only been operational since December 2021. Redress Scotland is not an investment organisation and therefore none of our business activities conducted, would fall in scope of these additional checks.
2. Please also detail any instances of non-compliance with the guidance that have been reported. Redress Scotland has had no instances of non-compliance with the guidance to report.
3. Please confirm for me whether your organisation was previously aware of or has ever given consideration to this guidance, including whether you are aware of having been notified of it by a representative of the Scottish Government or other public body. Although not previously aware of this guidance, we have sought further advice from our sponsorship team in Scottish Government. It is confirmed that none of Redress Scotland’s business activities provide scope or necessity to conduct these checks.
4. Please also tell me how many investment relationships or agreements your organisation has engaged in since June 2018. Redress Scotland has not engaged in any investment relationships or agreements with a third party, since becoming operational in December 2021. The supply of documents under the terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 does not give the applicant or whoever receives the information any right to re-use it in such a way that might infringe the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (for example, by making multiple copies, publishing or otherwise distributing the information to other individuals and the public). The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 ensured that Section 50 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (“CDPA”) applies to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (“FOISA”).
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