Electronic devices deployed by Scottish Government: FOI release

Information requested

A number of questions included in an attachment. I have used the question tables that you submitted to provide you with the requested information.

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested in the format you asked for.

Q1. Can you please list the number of devices deployed by your organisation for the following?
Device Type	Number of Devices
Desktop PCs	66
Laptops	10396
Mobile Phones	4342
Printers	Information not held centrally (*see note note below)
Multi Functional Devices (MFDs)	351
Tablets	123
Physical Servers	85
Storage Devices (for example: NAS, SAN)	5
Networking Infrastructure (for example: Switches, Routers, Interfaces, Wireless Access Points)	2221
Security Infrastructure (for example: Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Virus Monitoring Tools)	Exempt under section 30(c)

* While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not hold some of the information you have requested. This is because printers are purchased by business areas direct from framework suppliers therefore this information is not held centrally. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you requested.

Q2. Does your organisation plan to procure any of the below enterprise applications or software, if yes, please provide information in the below format.  Please note, if the applications you're planning to procure are not listed below then do mention them separately.	2024/25 Spend/Budget (£000)	2025/26 Spend/Budget (£000)
Content Management System	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)
Supply Chain Management (SCM)	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)
Inventory Management Software	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Software	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)
Business Intelligence Systems	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)
Other software/apps (mention the name of the software)	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)	Exempt under section 12 (see note below)

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600. The reason for this is that to locate and retrieve that information we would need to contact all business areas within the Scottish Government to obtain all the information and carrying out that trawl would breach the upper cost limit. Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.

You may, however, wish to consider reducing the scope of your request in order that the costs can be brought below £600. For example, you could restrict your request to a specific business area of the Scottish Government, such as a named Directorate. This would allow us to limit the searches that would require to be conducted. You may also find it helpful to look at the Scottish Information Commissioner's 'Tips for requesting information under FOI and the EIRs' on his website at:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Tipsforrequesters.aspx.

Q3. Do you have any plans to procure End user devices (desktop/laptop/tablet/mobile phones etc)? if yes, please provide information in the below format.	2024/25 Spend/Budget (£000)	2025/26 Spend/Budget (£000)
Desktops	**	**** Information not yet yet known
Laptops	** £800,000	**** Information not yet known
Mobile Phones	*** Information not known	*** Information not known
Tablets and Others (if Others, please specify)	**	**** Information not yet known

** While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not hold information broken down to this level. This is because there is no central budget line for this. However, the forecast spend for laptops and other digital end user devices is £800,000. This is subject to change dependent on the fiscal controls in place. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you requested.

*** While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not hold the information you have requested. This is because mobile phones are procured using the Scottish Government Mobile Voice and Data contract but there is no central budget for the replacement of mobile phones. This is the responsibility of individual business areas within the Scottish Government. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you requested.

**** There will be an upcoming Scottish Government budget. Digital budgets will be published as part of that.

Q4. Do you have any plans to procure below services/softwares? if yes, please provide information in the below format.	2024/25 Spend/Budget (£000)	2025/26 Spend/Budget (£000)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)	0	0
Cyber Security	Exempt under Section 30(c)	Exempt under Section 30(c)

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance an exemption under section 30(c of FOISA (prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs) applies to your request. Disclosing this information would substantially prejudice our ability to carry out the effective conduct of public affairs. Providing details about the information you have requested into the public domain could subsequently be used by threat actors, building a picture of our security capability, to evade any controls we might or might not have in place. This could therefore enable them to target specific types of attack or data exfiltration methods an would constitute substantial prejudice to the effective conduct of public affairs.

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