Publication - FOI/EIR release

Climate Justice Innovation grant applications and associated budgets: EIR release

Published: 7 December 2017
Directorate: Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Topic: Environment and climate change, Public sector

Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.

FOI reference: FOI/17/02748
Date received: 6 November 2017
Date responded: 27 November 2017

Information requested

You asked for copies of the successful Climate Justice Innovation Grant applications and their corresponding budgets, under Freedom of Information.

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.

I enclose a copy of the information you requested.

Title	Detail	File Type	Size
Annex A	Aquatera Application	PDF	317.6KB
Annex B	Aquatera Final Budget	Excel	643.5KB
Annex C	Challenges WW Application	PDF	282.5KB
Annex D	Challenges WW Final Budget	Excel	59.4KB
Annex E	Community Energy Scotland Application	PDF	511.8KB
Annex F	Community Energy Scotland Final Budget	Excel	61.2KB
Annex G	Leith Crops in Pots Application	PDF	465.9KB
Annex H	Leith Crops in Pots Final Budget	Excel	49.1KB
Annex I	Malawi Fruits CJIF Application	PDF	530.6KB
Annex J	Malawi Fruits CJIF Final Budget	Excel	58.3KB
Annex K	Tearfund Mhuju Fall Armyworm Application	PDF	805.9KB
Annex L	Tearfund Mhuju Fall Armyworm Final Budget	Excel	191.7KB

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 relating to a third party) of the EIRs applies to that information. The reasons why that exception applies are explained below.

Reasons for not providing information

An exception under regulation 11.2 of the EIRs applies to some of the information you have requested. This exception applies because the documents released contain the personal data including names and contact details, of third parties.

This exception 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 exception. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception. We recognise that there is some public interest in release. However, this is outweighed by the public interest in withholding the personal data of third party individuals.

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