Current status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 25 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-41171 by Gillian Martin on 27 October 2025, what the estimated cost is for the Energy Consents Unit to process a representation from a member of the public, also broken down by the time taken to do so.
Processing a public representation requires multiple members of staff in the Energy Consents Unit (ECU) to manually undertake a sequence of detailed administrative tasks. This involves logging the submission in the correct format, reviewing its contents for validation, ensuring it is compliant with data protection obligations and preparation for inclusion in the case record.
Each representation must also be checked for sensitive material and cross-referenced with other submissions, which adds further administrative time. The estimated cost and time taken to process representations is therefore highly dependent on the nature of each submission, and the total number of representations received for an application.