EIR/202400435545 · FOI/EIR · not held
A9 Perth to Inverness repair costs: EIR release
Information requested
The total amount that Transport Scotland has spent on repairs to the A9 between Perth and Inverness, broken down into a table to reflect every financial year from 2007-08 to date.
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.
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. We do not have some of the information you have requested because we do not hold figures for maintenance carried out for the Perth to Inverness section of the A9 trunk road. However, the table below provides the maintenance spend for Perth to Scrabster section of the A9 trunk road. Please note that figures provided are the most up to date held and go up to 31 March 2024.
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 spend on repairs, clearly we cannot provide information which we do not hold.
FY Maintenance Spend 2006/07 £11,967,005 2007/08 £16,250,647 2008/09 £9,354,309 2009/10 £16,287,745 2010/11 £16,523,483 2011/12 £8,274,281 2012/13 £15,762,457 2013/14 £19,362,376 2014/15 £15,164,033 2015/16 £11,311,657 2016/17 £15,750,323 2017/18 £14,624,716 2018/19 £19,559,458 2019/20 £17,092,913 2020/21 £25,236,793 2021/22 £20,582,512 2022/23 £24,076,082 2023/24 £24,944,351 Total £302,125,143
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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. 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.
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