FOI/202600500668 · FOI/EIR · partially withheld
Transport Scotland A8 and A78 Trunk Road data: EIR release
Information requested
You asked for the following information:
A8 - A list of, and value of, each project Amey have undertaken on the A8 since winning the contract broken down per annum.
A78 - A list of, and value of, each project Amey have undertaken on the A78 since winning the contract broken down per annum.
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 refer to Annex A for the requested information relating to the A8 and A78 Trunk Road from August 2020 to 31 March 2022, and Annex B for the requested information relating to the A8 and A78 Trunk Roads from April 2022 to the end of December 2025.
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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.