Heat in Buildings Impact Assessments: EIR release

Information requested

All Impact Assessments carried out in relation to the Scottish Government's Delivering Net Zero for Scotland's Buildings: Changing the way we heat out homes and buildings and the development of the Scottish Government's Heat in Buildings Bill including draft forms and deliberations over these Assessments.

Response

I enclose a copy of the information you requested. Please note the impact assessments in the first instance utilised impact assessments drafted for the Scottish Government's Heat in Buildings Strategy as a template. As such earlier versions contain a content drafted for that strategy. In some but not all cases this is highlighted in yellow.

Included within the reply are 40 documents - 39 of which are the Impact Assessments for the Proposals on a Heat in Buildings Bill Consultation at various stages of drafting and 1 of which is a collection of emails related to these documents.

An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exception is not subject to the 'public interest test', so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception.

An exception under regulation 10(4)(e) of the EIRs (internal communications) applies to some of the information requested because it has been circulated internally for comment/ As the exception is conditional we have applied the 'public interest test'. This means we have, in all the circumstances of this case, considered if the public interest in disclosing 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. While we recognise that there may be some public interest in information , this is outweighed by the public interest in exempting this information.

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EIR 202400400461 - Information released - Annex

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