EIR/202600500681 · FOI/EIR · partially withheld
Future Farming Investment Scheme (FFIS) data: EIR release
Information requested
Please provide a list of all recipients of grant aid under the Future Farming Investment Scheme (FFIS) for the 2025 funding round who are located within Dumfries and Galloway.
For each recipient, please provide:
name of business or individual applicant farm/business address or locality amount of grant awarded project/item funded (where available)
If any of this information is withheld under exemptions, please state the specific exemption(s) relied upon and provide the remainder of the information in a disclosable format.
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.
In total 135 farm businesses in the Galloway and West Dumfries Scottish Parliament constituency received a total of £1,957,265.91 through the Future Farming Investment Scheme, the details of the amount of grant support made and the items funded are provided.
I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested in the format you asked for.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exception under regulation 11(2) (personal data of a third party) of the EIRs applies to that information. The reasons why that exception(s) applies are explained in the Annex to this letter.
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Detected exemption language
For each recipient, please provide: name of business or individual applicant farm/business address or locality amount of grant awarded project/item funded (where available) If any of this information is withheld under exemptions, please state the specific exemption(s) relied upon and provide the remainder of the information in a disclosable format. 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.