More Scottish Government Cabinet records to be released on ScotlandsPeople

From the National Records of Scotland (www.nrscotland.gov.uk):

Files to be opened for the first time by National Records of Scotland will be made available online this week, revealing the content of Scottish Cabinet discussions in 2006.

That year, First Minister Jack McConnell’s Cabinet considered a wide range of topics including criminal justice matters, drug abuse and rehabilitation, transport issues such as bridges and ferry services, and much more.

These records are being made available to the public as part of the Scottish Government’s commitment to proactively release records after 15 years.

The Scottish Cabinet records will be publicly accessible free of charge via the NRS research website ScotlandsPeople from 6 January 2022.

You can read the full release at www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2022/2006-scottish-cabinet-records-to-be-released-online. 

There is no mention of the annual update of birth, marriage and death records on the site that will actually be of use to genealogists, but it seems possible that if they are adding the above records this Thursday, we might see them then. 

For what it is worth, I think the placing of these Scottish Government cabinet records on ScotlandsPeople is just plain bizarre, it is not what the site was designed for.

Chris

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