The challenges and benefits of relocating to the Isle of Man

Summary

The request sought all records, including contracts and payments, related to a media article on the challenges and benefits of relocating to the Isle of Man. The Department for Enterprise disclosed email correspondence regarding the collaboration but withheld personal data under exemption, confirming no financial expense was incurred for the article.

Key Facts

• Locate Isle of Man was approached by Media Isle of Man in May 2024 for a 'Diversity' Future Series campaign.
• The Department shared content links and contact details, but Media Isle of Man conducted interviews independently.
• The resulting media coverage was produced at no expense to the Department for Enterprise.
• Contributors granted permission for their inclusion in the feature.
• Personal data within the correspondence was redacted as it was deemed absolutely exempt.

Data Disclosed

• 2024-06-18
• 2024-07-09
• 10 May 2024
• 09 May 2024
• 11 pages
• 3 documents
• 3926189
• section 25(b)(i)(ii)
• Article 5
• Article 6

Exemptions Cited

• Section 25(b)(i)(ii) of the Freedom of Information Act 2015 (Personal Information)
• Data Protection (Application of GDPR) Order 2018 (Article 5 and Article 6)

Original Request

All records relating to this article: https://www.iomtoday.co.im/diversity/the-challenges-and-benefits-of-relocating-to-the-isle-of-man-689264 Including contracts, payments, correspondence, invoices and receipts related to it.

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Full Response Text

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1 From: Sent: 10 May 2024 14:53 To: Subject: FW: Locate Isle of Man x Diversity Attachments: The Future Series 2024 - Media Isle of Man.pdf Hi

My initial thoughts on this..

We could share some of our people stories from the Engineering and Finance campaign.

Engineering

Not quite a full relocation, but a retention piece –

Finance

and friends would be perfect, .

Any case studies from before my time which might fit the bill and tick the diversity box?

They’ve highlighted some TT case studies, which are the theme they seem to be looking for, based on the time of year/TT approaching. Are we ok to resubmit these in publications outside of Locate’s website or would we need to reach out for additional permission?

Let me know your thoughts so I can get back to , if you have a couple of mins to take a look/drop me a reply.

Many thanks

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Sent: 09 May 2024 11:06 To:

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Subject: FW: Locate Isle of Man x Diversity

Caution: This email is from an external sender. Please take care before opening any attachments or following any links.
Hi ,

Separately to TT, we’re running a special focus campaign on Diversity from next week, in tandem with World Day for Cultural Diversity. This will be part of Media Isle of Man’s current Future Series and launches with the Diversity print supplement in next week’s Courier.

The team wondered if Locate would like to share relocation stories highlighting the experiences of more diverse residents and businesses relocating to or returning to our shores. An email with links from Kim’s team is below.

Freedom of Information Co-ordinator 1st Floor, St Georges Court Upper Church Street, Douglas Isle of Man IM1 1EX

Telephone: (01624 686400) Website: https://www.iomdfenterprise.im/

Our ref: 3926189 10th July 2024

Dear

Ref: Freedom of Information Act 2015

I write further to your request, received 18 June 2024, which states:

"All records relating to this article: https://www.iomtoday.co.im/diversity/the- challenges-and-benefits-of-relocating-to-the-isle-of-man-689264

Including contracts, payments, correspondence, invoices and receipts related to it."

Our response to your request is as follows:
The attached files contain email correspondence in connection with the above media article and have been redacted in accordance with section 25(b)(i)(ii) of the Freedom of Information Act 2015, as absolutely exempt personal information. The reasons why that exemption applies are that: • The information amounts to personal data of which you are not the data subject; and • disclosure of the information would contravene one of the data protection principles as set out in Article 5 of the General Data Protection Regulation as it applies in the Isle of Man pursuant to the Data Protection (Application of GDPR) Order 2018, namely that it is only permitted to disclose the information where it would be fair and lawful and meet one of the conditions for lawful processing in Article 6 and in this case, none of those conditions have been met. Locate Isle of Man, a section of the Department for Enterprise, was approached by Media Isle of Man as part of their May 2024 'Diversity' Future Series (coinciding with World Day for Cultural Diversity) to explore whether Locate could facilitate introductions to residents and businesses who had completed recent relocation stories to understand whether they would be willing to contribute to the feature.
Locate Isle of Man responded by sharing relevant content links and contact details, with Media Isle of Man conducting the interviews independently for their feature.
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The resulting coverage was produced at no expense to the Department, with contributors granting permission for their inclusion in the feature. There is no further information held concerning this article.

Please quote the reference number 3926189 in any future communications.

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