Meetings between Ministers and Home Energy Scotland: EIR release

Information requested

- A list of meetings between Ministers and Home Energy Scotland since 2021.

- All briefings and notes of these meetings.

- A list of all companies that HES works with in retrofitting and energy efficiency.

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.

Please find below a list of meetings between Ministers and Home Energy Scotland since 2021.

• Meeting with Minister for local government, housing and planning - 21 January 2021
• Meeting between Cabinet Secretary and Mike Thornton 7 Oct 2021
• Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings meeting with Mike Thornton 15 December 2021
• Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings visit to a HES advice centre – 21 April 2022
• Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings visit to a HES advice centre – 30 November 2022
• Meeting between Cabinet Secretary and Mike Thornton – 20 July 2023
• Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings attending Hestival, the Home Energy Scotland staff event – 21 September 2023
• Minister for Climate Action meeting with Mike Thornton – 6 August 2024

A list of the following briefings and notes have been attached.

• Meeting with Minister for local government, housing and planning - 21 January 2021
• Meeting between Cabinet Secretary and Mike Thornton 7 Oct 2021
• Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings meeting with Mike Thornton 15 December 2021
• Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings visit to a HES advice centre – 21 April 2022
• Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings visit to a HES advice centre – 30 November 2022
• Meeting between Cabinet Secretary and Mike Thornton – 20 July 2023
• Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings attending Hestival, the Home Energy Scotland staff event – 21 September 2023
• Note of Meeting - Minister attending Hestival – 21 September 2023
• Minister for Climate Action meeting with Mike Thornton – 6 August 2024

As an impartial service, Home Energy Scotland do not recommend the use of any particular company for retrofit and energy efficiency works. To access funding through the Home Energy Scotland Grant and Loan scheme, applicants seeking to install complex energy efficiency must currently use a Trustmark or Green Deal accredited company. Applicants seeking to install a heat pump must use an MCS accredited company. You can find more information about these requirements on the Home Energy Scotland website: https://www.homeenergyscotland.org/home-energy-scotland-grant-loan.

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EIR 202400443072 - Information Released - Annex

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