Ministerial cars and mileages: FOI release

Information requested

 

1. Ministerial cars used within the last year.
2. The mileage that the driver has to travel from their home to the ministers home for all journeys where ministers are being brought into Parliament and St Andrews House and vice versa.

 

Response

I have provided some of the information you requested in the annex below.
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 reason why we don’t have the information is explained in the Annex to this letter.

 

ANNEX
Government Car Service (Scotland) vehicle fleet 2018/19.
 

Make	Model
Kia	Optima PHEV
Lexus	GS450 Hybrid
Lexus	RX450 Hybrid
Mitsubishi	Outlander PHEV
Skoda	Superb TDI
Skoda	Superb tsi
Volvo	V90 PHEV
Volkswagan	Passat PHev

REASON FOR NOT PROVIDING INFORMATION
The Scottish Government does not have the information
The Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for because we do not record individual journey mileage data, as there is no operational requirement to do so.
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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