FOI/202100195556 · FOI/EIR · not held
Total cost per route of motorways in Scotland: EIR release
Information requested
The total cost per route of other motorways in Scotland over the same time span as the M90.
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.
Please see table below showing the financial year maintenance spend for each motorway covering the period 2017/18 - 2020/21:
Route 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 M74 £2,662,762 £3,513,986 £6,453,042 £3,325,049 M77 £1,434,644 £446,011 £816,837 £656,099 M8 £17,028,450 £18,844,592 £13,177,953 £6,441,248 M80 £1,755,418 £1,449,447 £1,405,040 £1,257,668 M823 £2,006,287 £1,187,355 £1,682,346 £562,336 M876 £833,822 £1,252,324 £1,036,847 £275,775 M898 £54,816 £250,191 £187,085 £59,809 M9 £5,780,893 £5,870,491 £5,235,203 £3,830,812 M90 £23,248,705 £14,777,650 £19,262,731 £8,412,885
Under the terms of the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held), Transport Scotland is not required to provide information which it does not have. At the moment. we do not have some of the information you have requested. This is because, for FY 2020/21, we only hold road maintenance spend through the operating company contracts until 30 November 2020 although an update is expected in May/June of this year.
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. While we recognise that there may be some public interest in information about maintenance spend, clearly we cannot provide information which we do not hold.
About FOI
The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. View all FOI responses at http://www.gov.scot/foi-responses.
Contact Please quote the FOI reference Central Enquiry Unit Email: ceu@gov.scot Phone: 0300 244 4000 The Scottish Government St Andrews House Regent Road Edinburgh EH1 3DG
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. Please see table below showing the financial year maintenance spend for each motorway covering the period 2017/18 - 2020/21: Route 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 M74 £2,662,762 £3,513,986 £6,453,042 £3,325,049 M77 £1,434,644 £446,011 £816,837 £656,099 M8 £17,028,450 £18,844,592 £13,177,953 £6,441,248 M80 £1,755,418 £1,449,447 £1,405,040 £1,257,668 M823 £2,006,287 £1,187,355 £1,682,346 £562,336 M876 £833,822 £1,252,324 £1,036,847 £275,775 M898 £54,816 £250,191 £187,085 £59,809 M9 £5,780,893 £5,870,491 £5,235,203 £3,830,812 M90 £23,248,705 £14,777,650 £19,262,731 £8,412,885 Under the terms of the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held), Transport Scotland is not required to provide information which it does not have.
Attachments
No attachments found.