A96 corridor review: FOI release

Information requested

All funding spent of the A96 corridor review, broken down by financial year.

Response

As all of 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.

The total spent on the A96 Corridor Review up to the date of your request is £5,981,787.02.

Financial Year	Total Spent
1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023	£3,265,047.17
1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024	£2,362,603.37
1 April 2024 to 22 July 2024	£354,136.48

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