Approval of CMAL contract award: EIR release

Information requested

Information relating to the document ‘response to submission to Ministers requesting approval of CMAL contract award:

1. Was this document stored in eRDM?
2. If so what was its eRDM number?
3. Was it marked with corporate significance?
4. All dates on which the eRDM object was accessed, edited or moved

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.

The document in question was found by Information Management experts who were able to access all areas within the Scottish Government’s corporate systems. As a result, please see responses to your questions as follows:

1. Was this document stored in eRDM?
No

2. If so what was its eRDM number?
Not applicable, see answer to question 1.

3. Was it marked with corporate significance?
Not applicable, see answer to question 1.

4. All dates on which the eRDM object was accessed, edited or moved."
Not applicable, see answer to question 1.

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