My officials continue to engage with the Islands partners and most recently met with the Islands Deal Programme Director on 2 August and 4 September to discuss next steps.<\/p>
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I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in September 2019.<\/p>
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The Office concluded that it did not have the resources to publish retrospectively online all of the responses to FOI requests since 2014 and that the benefit to the public would not be proportionate to the cost.<\/p>
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