EIR/202300382340 · FOI/EIR · unclear
Scottish Environment Ministers correspondence on vaping: EIR release
Information requested
1. Copies of all correspondence to and from Laura Young and Scottish Environment Ministers regarding vaping between 1st January 2022 and to date.
2. Details of all meetings between Laura Young and Scottish Environment Ministers regarding vaping between 1st January 2022 and to date. For each meeting, please include all briefings, presentation and minutes or actions arising.
3. Details of all meetings with third parties held by Lorna Slater MSP regarding vaping between 1st January 2022 and 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 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 below in 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.