Annual road vehicle procurement: FOI release

Information requested

All information held by the Scottish Government from 2016 onward which shows the number of road vehicles procured annually by the Scottish Government and by NDPBs, or as great a subset of the total as is held centrally, broken down by year, by fuel (petrol, diesel, electric) and where possible by agency or body.

Response

Contained within the Annex is some of the information you requested.

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. The reasons why we don’t have some of the information are explained in the Annex below.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. 

Annex
The Scottish Government hold central records for our own, Transport Scotland and Crown Office Procurator Fiscals Service (COPFS) fleets. These are presented in the tables below. Annual road vehicle procurement for Scottish Government since 2016.

Annual road vehicle procurement for Scottish Government since 2016.

Year	Diesel	Petrol	Hybrid	Electric	Range extender	Plug in Electric vehicle (PHEV)	Total
2016	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
2017	10	17	0	1	0	6	34
2018	8	0	3	1	1	6	19
2019	4	0	2	9	0	35	50
2020	2	0	0	3	3	11	19
2021	3	0	0	7	0	5	15
Total	28	17	5	21	4	63	138

Annual road vehicle procurement for Transport Scotland since 2016.

Year	Electric	Range extender	Plug in Electric vehicle (PHEV)	Total
2016	0	0	0	0
2017	1	0	0	1
2018	2	1	2	5
Total	3	1	2	6

Annual vehicle procurement for COPFS since 2016.

Year	Diesel	Hybrid	Total
2016	0	0	0
2017	4	2	6
2018	0	0	0
2019	10	1	11
2020	0	5	5
2021	0	0	0
Total	14	8	22

The Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have asked for because we are not involved in the procurement of road vehicles for NDPB’s.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.

However, you may wish to contact each organisation directly, who may be able to help you. Contact details are available via the following link:

National public bodies: directory - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

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