Scotland Office

General information

Comments posted on and messages received on this Facebook page are views of individuals and don’t represent the views of the UK Government.

This Facebook page is managed by the UK Government press office in Scotland. While we welcome comments from people interested in this debate, we would urge Facebook users to keep their comments relevant. In particular, we reserve the right to remove comments received on Facebook that:
• contain abusive, obscene, indecent or offensive language, or link to obscene or offensive material
• contain swear words or other sorts of profanity
• are completely removed from the topic of conversation or aren’t relevant to the item posted on the wall
• contain abusive language towards an individual involved in the thread, other organisations or the page administrator
• constitute spam or promote or advertise products, except where it’s for an event, publication or similar item that has direct relevance to the subject of discussion. Information about locating and sharing knowledge and expertise is welcomed, but within the specific discussion
• are designed to cause nuisance to the page administrator or other users

For serious and/or persistent breaches of the moderation policy, we reserve the right to prevent users from posting further comments. This page is generally only moderated during working hours, Monday to Friday.