Correspondence with National Farmers’ Union of Scotland (NFUS): EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004
Information requested
Corespondence since December 2023 between NFU Scotland and Mairi Gougeon and or Jim Fairlie
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. I have provided 22 interactions which are spread across 52 documents. These are listed in the table below.
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Document Number |
Subject |
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Document 1A |
NFU Scotland Conference |
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Document 2A, Document 2B |
NFU Scotland Galloway National Park letter to Cabinet Secretary |
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Document 3A, Document 3B |
NFU Scotland letter - Sea Eagles |
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Document 4A, Document 4B |
NFU Scotland Submission - Scottish Government Budget 25/26 |
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Document 5A, Document 5B |
Motion submitted - Karen Adams MSP |
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Document 6A, Document 6B, Document 6C |
NFU Scotland Letter to Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform, and Islands and responses |
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Document 7A, Document 7B, Document 7C |
NFU Scotland Letter to Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, Fair Work and response |
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Document 8A |
NFU Scotland Letter to Ms Gougeon - Precision Breeding technology. |
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Document 9A, Document 9B, Document 9C |
NFU Scotland letter to Minister Fairlie - Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Service |
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Document 10A, Document 10B |
Letter to NFU Scotland from Ms Gougeon - Scottish Land Commission appointments |
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Document 11A, Document 11B, |
Letter from NFU Scotland to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government |
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Document 12A, Document 12B, |
Invitation from Mr Fairlie to NFU Scotland- Roundtable on decarbonising rural machinery and equipment |
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Document 13A, Document 13B, Document 13C |
NFU Scotland letter to Ms Gougeon - National Parks |
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Document 14A, Document 14B, Document 14C |
NFU Scotland letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform, & Islands - Budget considerations |
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Document 15A, Document 15B, Document 15C |
NFU Scotland letter to Ms Gougeon - Sustained wet weather conditions |
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Document 16A |
Ms Gougeon letter to NFUS - Land Reform Bill |
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Document 17A, Document 17B, Document 17C, Document 17D, Document 17E |
NFU Scotland letter to Ms Gougeon - Suckler beef |
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Document 18A, Document 18B, Document 18C |
NFU Scotland letter to Ms Gougeon - Invitation to discuss issues faced |
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Document 19A, Document 19B |
NFU Scotland letter to Ms Gougeon - Invitation to Annual dinner |
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Document 20A |
NFU Scotland letter to Ms Gougeon - Food labelling |
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Document 21A |
NFU Scotland letter to Ms Gougeon - LFASS & Species management |
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Document 22A, Document 22B |
NFU Scotland Invitation to Ms Gougeon |
REASONS FOR NOT PROVIDING INFORMATION
Under the EIRs some exceptions apply:
Regulation 11 (2) (personal information):
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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Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
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