FOI 25-054 - Incidents at Air Thrill East Kilbride
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-054 - Incidents at Air Thrill East Kilbride
- Request Date
- 03 Feb 2025
- Response Date
- 06 Feb 2025
- Information Requested
In terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, we would be obliged if you would forward to us:
1/ All documentation you hold in connection with any ambulance call-outs to Air Thrill in East Kilbride from January 2019 to the present day;
2/ In particular, the dates and number of call-outs in relation to customers sustaining injuries from January 2019 to the present day;
3/ If available, the dates and number of call-outs in relation to injuries sustained on the inflatable airpark section of this location from the January 2019 to the present day. We thank you in anticipation of your kind assistance and we look forward to hearing from you in due course.
- Response
We note and acknowledge that you quoted the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Scottish Ambulance Service is held to the legislation set-out in the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002 and this has what has been considered in our response.
Public authorities are not required to create information in order to answer a request. There’s a distinction between creating new information, and compiling information. Where a request can be answered by compiling information from readily-available resources held by the public authority, this is not the same as creating new information. However, if collation of the information would require skill and complex judgement, the information is not held. I have concluded that, in the case of data about the specific address of ‘Air Thrill East Kilbride’ we are unable to produce this information without complex skill and judgement.
This is because, although we hold information about incidents at specific locations and can report this at a postcode level, to report this at an individual address level we would be required to apply complex judgement. The reason for this is that there are multiple addresses within a postcode, there is also the potential for an incident to occur outside a premises and therefore not be attributed to a specific address. In addition we do not hold incidents against a category of ‘Trampoline Parks’. It is for this reason that we have applied the exemption Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002 as information not held.
