FOI/202400394432 · FOI · released
Scottish Government Diesel and Petrol vehicles fleet statistics: FOI release
Information requested
1. The number of instances in which a Diesel or Petrol vehicle has caught fire in each of the last five financial years (including 2023-2024)?
2. The number of instances in which Diesel or Petrol vehicle has broken down in each of the last five financial years (including 2023-2024)?
3. The number of Diesel and Petrol vehicles currently in your fleet?
Response
I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.
No Diesel or Petrol vehicles on the Scottish Government fleet have caught fire in any of the last five financial years, including 2023/2024.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested regarding Diesel and Petrol breakdowns for financial years 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 and months April 22 to December 2022.
The Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for because this information has been routinely deleted, in accordance with our records management practice, before the date of your request.
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
Year Number of Diesel or Petrol vehicle breakdowns 2022 /2023 (1) 4 2023 / 2024 5
(1) Partial records: January 2023 – March 2023. (2) up to 16 January 2024.
We currently operate 36 Diesel and 5 Petrol, non-plug in, hybrid vehicles.
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Contact Please quote the FOI reference Central Enquiry Unit Email: ceu@gov.scot Phone: 0300 244 4000 The Scottish Government St Andrews House Regent Road Edinburgh EH1 3DG
Detected exemption language
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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