Information relating to clean-up of Broxden roundabout 10-06-2017: EIR release

FOI reference: FOI/17/01400
Date received: 21 June 2017
Date responded: 13 July 2017

Information requested

All information and reports relating to the clean-up of Broxden roundabout on 10 June 2017 be supplied. Please note that it our belief that this incident happened as a result of negligence and will be looking to recover the losses from the negligent party as a result.

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.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Transport Scotland does not have the information you have requested. Therefore we are refusing your request under the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs. The reasons why that exception applies is Transport Scotland have no record of an incident or road traffic collision at this location on 10 June 2017.

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