Publication - FOI/EIR release

Communications between Scottish Ministers and their advisors and Kingspan Group PLC: EIR release

Published: 12 December 2023
Directorate: Local Government and Housing Directorate
Topic: Public sector
FOI reference: 202200291656
Date received: 31 March 2022
Date responded: 27 April 2022

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

Information requested

Information/communications/documents regarding any communications between any Scottish Minister or their Special Advisor and representatives of or advocates on behalf of Kingspan Group PLC or the trade body they are a member of.

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.

Response

A copy of all of the information you requested is attached as seven separate PDF documents.

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