Scotland’s Carbon Budgets correspondence: EIR release

Information requested

Any correspondence (including emails, letters, phone calls, handwritten notes, WhatsApp messages or any other documents) between the office of the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy and the Climate Change Committee regarding Scotland’s Carbon Budgets. Information should include but not be limited to a detailed timeline (with dates) of any contact between these individuals. Please provide this information between the dates of 1 March 2025 and 12 November 2025 inclusive.

Any correspondence (including emails, letters, phone calls, handwritten notes, WhatsApp messages or any other documents) between the office of the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy and any Scottish Government official with a rank of deputy director or higher regarding Scotland’s Carbon Budgets. Information should include but not be limited to a detailed timeline (with dates) of any contact between these individuals. Please provide this information between the dates of 1 March 2025 and 12 November 2025 inclusive.

Any correspondence (including emails, letters, phone calls, handwritten notes, WhatsApp messages or any other documents) between Scottish Government officials with a rank of deputy director or higher regarding Scotland’s Carbon Budgets. Please provide this information between the dates of 1 March 2025 and 12 November 2025 inclusive.

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 have included copies of the information you have requested in the attached document in Annex B.

On reviewing materials within scope of your request some exceptions have been applied in line with the EIRs. You can find information on the exceptions that have been applied to information in Annex A.

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EIR 202500493411 - Information released - Annex A and Annex B

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