Publication - FOI/EIR release

Transport Scotland: Ships 801/2 - System Design and Selection of Machinery and Fuel: EIR release

Published: 24 September 2024
Topic: Public sector, Transport
FOI reference: EIR/202400424355
Date received: 29 July 2024
Date responded: 21 August 2024

Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004

Information requested

Minutes of Tripartite and other meetings and communications with CalMac and CMAL concerning system design, selection of propulsion and power generation machinery, and LNG fuel, for the period December 2012 to May 2016.

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.

The information you have requested has already been published and is available by following the attached links. This also includes a link to the final reports regarding this project which can also be found using the links supplied:

Ferguson Marine: documents - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) or contact made using this address SIAD@gov.scot.

RECC_supplementary_evidence_v2.pdf (nrscotland.gov.uk)

Parliamentary Committee Report

RECC Iona Ferry Committee Report

I have attached four further documents that may be of interest to you from the time period you queried under this EIR.

Under regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs, we do not have to give you information which is already publicly available and easily accessible to you in another form or format. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.

In addition I would refer you to the lead partners in this project Caledonian MacBrayne Limited (CalMac) and Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL). These parties who would have been involved in the most technical discussion decision making around the matters you enquire around and if further technical details are available they would be held by these parties.

Additional information regarding the use of LNG and MGO can be found on the CalMac Website in a Q&A link found here LNG Q&A

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