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Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-30741

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: 17 October 2024
  • Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 7 November 2024

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what the proportion of zero-emissions vehicles in (a) its own fleet, (b) each of its agencies' fleets and (c) the public sector fleet as a whole has been in each of the last five years.


Answer

A breakdown of the Scottish Government fleet (including pool, Government Car Service and Transport Scotland) over the last 5 years is provided in the following table.

Year

Zero Emission %

2020-21

13%

2021-22

27%

2022-23

27%

2023-24

27%

2024-25 (1)

27%

Notes

1.Data range 01 April to 22 October 2024.

Transport Scotland holds information on the composition of the public sector fleet based on responses to surveys of vehicle type in 2020, 2022 and 2023, this information is summarised in the following table for Scottish Government agencies. Transport Scotland does not hold information for each of the last 5 years.

Executive Agencies

2020 Zero Emission %

2022 Zero Emission %

2023 Zero Emission %

Accountancy in Bankruptcy

No Fleet

No Fleet

No Fleet

Disclosure Scotland

No Data Held

No Fleet

No Fleet

Education Scotland

No Fleet

No Fleet

No Fleet

Forestry and Land Scotland

No Data Held

4%

15%

Scottish Forestry

0.14%

8%

17%

Scottish Pensions Agency

No Fleet

No Fleet

No Fleet

Scottish Prison Service

4%

2%

3%

Social Security Scotland

0%

50%

75%

Student Awards Agency for Scotland

No Data Held

Data Not Held

No Fleet

Data collected by Transport Scotland in 2020,2022 and 2023 indicates that there are around 30,000 vehicles in the public sector fleet, the following table shows the % of zero emission vehicles in the fleet in each of the years that data was collected.

Public Sector Fleet

% Vehicles that are Zero Emission

2020

5%

2022

12%

2023

17%