FOI/202200289941 · FOI/EIR · partially withheld
Local Coastal Partnerships (LCP) funding from Marine Scotland: EIR release
Information requested
You asked for the amount of Marine Scotland funding for regional marine planning to Local Coastal Partnerships (LCP) over the past five years.
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 exemption 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 exemption 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 exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, 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. Below is a table showing the Marine Scotland funding amounts for regional marine planning to each Local Coastal Partnerships (LCP) over the past five years.
Type Area Marine Scotland Funding Amounts (£) 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 Local Coastal Partnership (LCP) East Grampian 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 21,500 Forth Estuary Forum 36,000 36,000 36,000 38,000 39,500 Moray Coastal Firth Partnership 32,000 32,000 32,000 32,000 33,500 Tay Estuary Forum 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 16,500 Solway Firth Partnership 38,000 38,000 38,000 38,000 39,500
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Detected exemption language
We are applying the exemption 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 exemption 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 exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes.
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