FOI/202400431928 · FOI/EIR · unclear
Review materials of current National Parks: EIR release
Information requested
“Could you provide all documentation held by the Scottish Government regarding reviewing the current National Parks, including email correspondence sent and received (including internal), minutes/notes from meetings, policy analysis, briefings, from the last six months?”
After contacting you to confirm our interpretation of your request, it was clarified that you are asking for the following information:
“I'm looking for independent reviews that may have been carried out or are planned and about impacts on economy, tourism, etc.”
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 exception 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 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, 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.
I have included copies of the information you have requested in the attached Annex A.
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Detected exemption language
We are applying the exception 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.