FOI/19/01736 · FOI/EIR · partially withheld
Low Carbon Transport Loan Fund breakdown: EIR release
Information requested
You asked for how much of the Low Carbon Transport Loan Fund has been paid out and for this information broken down by spend and project type for 2018.
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.
How much of the Low Carbon Transport Loan Fund has been paid out. Please provide this information broken down by spend and project type.
Loan Stream Financial Year Business Domestic Hackney Switched on Taxis 2011/12 £387,184 2012/13 £446,208 2013/14 £136,362 2014/15 £992,013 2015/16 £1,695,027 £1,166,528 2016/17 £2,456,419 £2,537,608 £1,892,132 2017/18 £1,278,394 £3,835,841 £2,347,222 2018/19 £2,114,311 £8,282,274 £7,623,417 2019/20 £408,384 £1,549,637 £1,633,035 £176,497 Total £9,914,302 £17,371,888 £13,495,807 £176,497 Overall Total £40,958,493
These figures reflect actual funds paid out at the end of the relevant financial year and will not always equate to the total funding made available that year.
Due to long lead-in times for electric vehicles, the remaining funding was paid in subsequent years once the customer was in receipt of the vehicle. Please note that the figures for 2019-20 include loans paid up to and including 23 July 2019.
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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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