FOI 25-121 Sort and Resilience Information
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-121 Sort and Resilience Information
- Request Date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Response Date
- 02 Apr 2025
- Information Requested
I am here to request information on your Resilience Department, my questions will be below. Q1) Please provide clear images of all your SORT Rank Slides
Q1) Pip, 2 Pips all the way up to the highest rank possible)
Q2) Please provide a list of current fleet for your HART please include the purpose (include RRVs and anything else used by SORT)
Q3) Please provide an Org Chart for your resilience department, including senior leaders and who they report to & the portfolios they hold
- Response
Q1) A copy of the Scottish Ambulance Services’ Uniform policy is available on our website under previous FOI 24-471 Uniform Policy, this includes SORT rankings.
Q2) We are withholding this information as the information requested is considered to be sensitive and therefore exempt under Section 31 (1) national security and defence. Under Section 31(1), ‘information is exempt information if exemption from disclosure is required for the purpose of safeguarding national security.’ Section 31 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act, is subject to the public interest test. There is a very strong public interest in preventing the SAS information systems from being subject to primary or secondary (supply chain) cyber-attacks. Providing the type of information requested and subsequent online publication, would very likely provide potential attackers with useful intelligence relating to the HART or call signs and possible exposure through third parties, which is not in the public interest.
Q3) Please see attached organisational chart for the Scottish Ambulance Service’s resilience team. All names and portfolios have been exempt for release under section 38 1(b) of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002, as personal information.
- Response Documents
