Occasions Scottish Forestry have reclaimed grant monies: EIR release

Information requested

Can you please tell me over the past 5 years.

1. on how many occasions Scottish Forestry have reclaimed grant monies due to the recipients' failure to comply with the Scheme's conditions.

2. the value of the monies claimed on each occasion, and 3. the nature of each non-compliance with conditions.

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 see the table below for the information you have requested.

Date
06-Sep-2023	9847.80	Over-declaration of expenditure for works claimed (over claim)
06-Sep-2023	1117.75	Removal of completed works & over-declaration of expenditure for works claimed (over claim)
30-Jun-2023	2856.89	Over-declaration of expenditure for works claimed (over claim)
30-Jun-2023	310.80	Over-declaration of expenditure for works claimed (over claim)
23-May-2022	3199.20	Over-declaration of expenditure for works claimed (over claim)
21-Apr-2022	3169.20	Over-declaration of expenditure for works claimed (over claim)
21-Apr-2022	5630.80	orks claimed (over claim)

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