Warmer Homes Scotland scheme guidance copy: EIR Review

Information requested

Original Request - 202400401600

‘A copy of the detailed Warmer Homes Scotland scheme guidance that Warmworks, the scheme managing agent, refer to in order to determine eligibility for each specific energy efficiency measure.’

Response

I have now completed my review of our failure to respond to your request under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs) for:

‘a copy of the detailed Warmer Homes Scotland scheme guidance that Warmworks, the scheme managing agent, refer to in order to determine eligibility for each specific energy efficiency measure.’

In accordance with regulation 16(3)(b) of the EIRs, I have also reached a decision on your request. I apologise for the delay in my response to your previous request. This was due to your original correspondence not being treated under FOI/EIR guidelines.

I can now provide our response to your original request.

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 Warmer Homes Scotland Contract Technical Specification. This is the guidance that Warmworks must adhere to when determining what measures are viable in an eligible property. I would like to highlight pages 9,24,31,32,44,45,71 which all mention External Wall Insulation.

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EIR 202400408737 - Information Released - Annex

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