Communications between ministers and Highland councillors which relate to onshore wind farms: EIR release

Information requested

Please share any communications between ministers and Highland councillors which relate to onshore wind farms from 6 May 2022 to the present date.

Please also provide any communications between ministers, their staff and Renewable Parts Limited.

Response

I enclose a copy of the information you requested below:

• Emails between Officials and Renewable Parts Limited.
• Emails between the Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands and Renewable Parts Limited.
• Emails between Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity and Renewable Parts Limited.

No other records have been identified.

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.

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FOI 202400432964 - Information Released - Annex

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