Freedom of Information

As a Scottish public body, HIE aims to comply fully with the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act, which came fully into force in January 2005.

This Act essentially provides a right of access to information held by public bodies regardless of age - and establishes the office of the Scottish Information Commissioner who has the necessary powers to enforce the Act and regulate compliance.

HIE is strongly committed to complying with the Act and is keen to find out more about what HIE network-related information people would be most interested in accessing. This will help us to ensure our communications focus on public interest in the information we hold. Learn more about the Act itself and HIE's related responsibilities using the links on this page.

If you have a HIE network-related enquiry you would like to make under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act, please contact:

Liz Taylor - information compliance project manager

Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Cowan House
Inverness retail and business park
Inverness IV2 7GF

Tel: 01463 244211
Fax: 01463 244469
Email: hie.general@hient.co.uk (Note: It will help us if you use 'FOI enquiry' in your e-mail's subject line.)

- or use our online enquiry form 

*Please note:  HIE uses filter software to check automatically all incoming email. In order to protect its staff, HIE does not accept emails containing profanities and will automatically delete, with no response, any email that contains offensive or profane content matching references provided by an independent email security content provider.