Local Coastal Partnerships (LCP) funding from Marine Scotland: EIR release

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You asked for the amount of Marine Scotland funding for regional marine planning to Local Coastal Partnerships (LCP) over the past five years.

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.

Below is a table showing the Marine Scotland funding amounts for regional marine planning to each Local Coastal Partnerships (LCP) over the past five years.

Type	Area	Marine Scotland Funding Amounts (£)
		2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22
Local Coastal Partnership (LCP)	East Grampian	20,000	20,000	20,000	20,000	21,500
	Forth Estuary Forum	36,000	36,000	36,000	38,000	39,500
	Moray Coastal Firth Partnership	32,000	32,000	32,000	32,000	33,500
	Tay Estuary Forum	15,000	15,000	15,000	15,000	16,500
	Solway Firth Partnership	38,000	38,000	38,000	38,000	39,500

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