Correspondence regarding meeting between Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Tourism and Transport and Blair McDougall MP: EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004
Information requested
‘I'm looking for information about the meeting between Stephen Flynn MSP and Blair McDougall MP on 4 September 2026.
(a) The full list of attendees, including officials and special advisers.
(b) Any agenda, ministerial briefing, speaking note or pre-meeting submission.
(c) Any minute, note, readout or record of the discussion, including any record of actions agreed.
(d) Any correspondence arising from the meeting’
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.
Request for information regarding the meeting between Stephen Flynn MSP and Blair McDougall MP on 4 September 2026
I have included copies of the information you have requested in the attached Annex (B).
On reviewing materials within the scope of your request, exceptions have been applied in line with the EIRs. The exceptions applied can be found in the attached Annex (A).
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