Response statistics for specific consultations: EIR release

Information requested

1. The total number of responses to the following consultations?

2. The total number of responses from individuals to the following consultations?

3. The total number of responses from organisations to the following consultations?

• Firth of Clyde cod spawning closure for 2022/23
• Draft Hydrogen Action Plan
• Consumer Scotland draft workplan for energy, post and water 2022-23: Consultation
• 20% car kilometre reduction route map
• Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 consultation on regulations allocating the new Transport Appeals to the General Regulatory Chamber

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.

I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested. For ease of reference this is presented in table format.

Consultation	Total number of responses	Total number of responses from individuals	Total number of responses from organisations
Firth of Clyde cod spawning closure for 2022/23	47	36	11*
Draft Hydrogen Action Plan	83	12	71
Consumer Scotland draft workplan for energy, post and water 2022-23: Consultation	25	8	17
20% car kilometre reduction route map	679	615	64
Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 consultation on regulations allocating the new Transport Appeals to the General Regulatory Chamber	171	161	10

* In addition, we received two further submissions via email which did not follow the format of the consultation questions but supported the principle of the closure.

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