Rural payments made to Gresham House Forest Growth and Sustainability Fund LP: EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
All rural payment commitments broken down by year made to Gresham House Forest Growth and Sustainability Fund LP, company number SL034785 since 1 January 2021.
For each year, please provide a breakdown of these payment commitments in terms of what was paid in agricultural and other payments, and what was paid under the forest grant scheme, as this information is also administered and held by RPID.
Please provide a further breakdown for each year in FGS payment commitments, showing payments for woodland creation schemes and payments for other things, such as tree felling.
For each year please provide totals for agricultural and other payments, then totals for FGS payments.
Finally please provide totals of all payments for each year.
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 attached the information we hold in relation to your request.
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