FOI/202500455066 · FOI/EIR · partially withheld
Scotland’s Renewables Future debate: EIR release
Information requested
All correspondence including but not limited to WhatsApp and text messages, emails, meeting minutes from both civil servants and MSPs relating to Scottish Government Debate: Scotland’s Renewables Future on Tuesday 4th March with specific focus on:
1) the date it was agreed/scheduled and the date it was publicly advertised. 2) which MSPs were notified and when 3) whether any consideration or instruction was given relating to notification of the public ie press releases or correspondence from MSPs to constituents between MSPS
Response
I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested:
E-mails between Officials
An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to all of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exception is not subject to the 'public interest test', so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception.
An exception under regulation 10(4)(e) of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (the EIRs) allows a Scottish public authority to withhold internal communications, and has been applied to some of the information.
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2) which MSPs were notified and when 3) whether any consideration or instruction was given relating to notification of the public ie press releases or correspondence from MSPs to constituents between MSPS Response I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested: E-mails between Officials An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to all of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. An exception under regulation 10(4)(e) of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (the EIRs) allows a Scottish public authority to withhold internal communications, and has been applied to some of the information.