Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 5 auction correspondence: EIR release

Information requested

Please provide all internal Scottish Government correspondence or briefing documents which mention the Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 5 auction.

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 some of the information you requested.

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 exceptions under regulations 11, 10(4)(e) and 10(5)(f) of the EIRs apply to that information. The reasons why the exceptions apply are explained in the Annex to this letter.

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FOI 202300375299 - Information Released - Annex A

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FOI 202300375299 - Information Released - Annex B

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