Briefing pack produced for the Scotonomics Festival of Economics: EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
This is a follow up request to a previous FOI response. Your ref: 202400406159.
The above referenced FOI response included a briefing pack produced for the Minister for Energy, Just Transition and Fair Work, Gillian Martin, in advance of her appearance at the Scotonomics Festival of Economics on 23rd March 2024.
Please provide all internal Scottish Government correspondence (including Ministers, Civil Servants, Special Advisers, and Press Officers) discussing the preparation of this briefing pack, along with any preliminary draft versions of the briefing pack.
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 exception 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.
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, 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 have included copies of the information you have requested below in Annex B.
On reviewing materials within scope of your request some exceptions have been applied in line with the EIRs.
You can find information on the exceptions that have been applied to information below in Annex A.
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