FOI/19/01735 · FOI/EIR · partially withheld
Electric vehicle loan scheme breakdown: EIR release
Information requested
Please detail how much money has been made available/budgeted for each year since 2011 for the electric vehicle loan scheme. (if allocations for the personal loan and the business loan of up to £120,000 are budgeted for separately, please list them separately)
Please detail how much money has actually been given out under the electric vehicle loan scheme each year since 2011. (if allocations to personal loan applicants are recorded separately from business loan applicants, please list them separately)
Please detail how many applications have been successfully made for the electric vehicle loan scheme each year since 2011. (if successful applications for personal and business loans are logged separately, please list them both)
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 detail how much money has been made available/budgeted for each year since 2011 for the electric vehicle loan scheme.
(if allocations for the personal loan and the business loan of up to £120,000 are budgeted for separately, please list them separately)
Financial Year Budget 2011/12 £335,246 2012/13 £280,000 2013/14 £596,367 2014/15 £500,000 2015/16 £2,860,000 2016/17 £7,000,000 2017/18 £8,200,000 2018/19 £20,063,000 2019/20 £20,871,000 Total £58,294,835
Please detail how much money has actually been given out under the electric vehicle loan scheme each year since 2011.
(if allocations to personal loan applicants are recorded separately from business loan applicants, please list them separately)
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
Please note - data for 2019/20 is up to 23rd July 2019
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 detail how many applications have been successfully made for the electric vehicle loan scheme each year since 2011.
(if successful applications for personal and business loans are logged separately, please list them both)
Loan Stream Financial Year Business Domestic Hackney Switched on Taxis 2011/12 18 2012/13 17 2013/14 5 2014/15 38 2015/16 52 30 2016/17 64 91 55 2017/18 39 154 63 2018/19 68 339 186 2019/20 13 61 39 3 Total 314 675 343 3 Overall Total 1335
Please note - data for 2019/20 is up to 23rd 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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