FOI/202300344254 · FOI/EIR · not held
Media Requests regarding Deposit Return Scheme: EIR release
Information requested
'Could you supply a list of how many requests have been made for government ministers to talk about the deposit return scheme since December 1 until the date of this FOI, including who was requested, when, what media outlet requested them, what your answer was, and what excuse was made if the request was rejected? Could this be in a table format?’
Response
As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exception at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exception is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
Response to your request
I have attached some of the information you have requested. This information can be found in Annex A.
To note, while our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not hold some of information you have requested specifically the reason for the request to be rejected. Therefore, this is a formal notice under Regulation 10(4)(a) of EIRs confirming that the Scottish Government does not hold this information. About FOI
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Detected exemption language
We are applying the exception at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA. Therefore, this is a formal notice under Regulation 10(4)(a) of EIRs confirming that the Scottish Government does not hold this information.