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FOI/202300388873 · FOI/EIR · partially withheld

Correspondence regarding Climate Challenge Fund: EIR release

Published
2024-03-21
Received
2023-12-11
Responded
2024-01-15
Directorate
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Topic
Environment and climate change, Public sector
Exemptions
20, 39(2)

Information requested

Any agreements or legal documents between the Scottish Government and Keep Scotland Beautiful in relation KSB’s administration of the Climate Challenge Fund; and all correspondence between the Scottish Government and Keep Scotland Beautiful in relation to the agreement of the administration of the Climate Challenge Fund ending.

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.

I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested. As your interest is in the Al-Mahdi projects, I have included the contracts and grant offer letters that we have on file from 2014 onwards. I have not included earlier contracts but we can release these if required. Personal data and commercially sensitive data has been redacted.

Due to the size of the files we are unable to upload the documents referred to above. If you wish to consider, please contact us at the address below and we will be happy to provide.

About FOI

The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. View all FOI responses at http://www.gov.scot/foi-responses.

Contact Please quote the FOI reference Central Enquiry Unit Email: ceu@gov.scot Phone: 0300 244 4000 The Scottish Government St Andrews House Regent Road Edinburgh EH1 3DG

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.

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