The Scottish Government Resilience Room (SGORR) takes part in a number of exercises every year to test its response protocols and overall effectiveness, train its staff and ensure a shared understanding of roles and responsibilities with partners. These exercises range from Tier 1 exercises (organised by UK Government and simulating a UK-level response) to SGORR-internal training exercises. The number of exercises SGORR participates in varies from year to year. To date in 2025, SGORR has completed six SGORR training exercises, and is currently planning to participate in a Tier 1 exercise later this year.

The Clean Power 2030 Action Plan was published by the UK Government. The National Energy System Operator, in its advice to the UK Government on the Clean Power 2030 ambition, noted that whilst the ambition is achievable, several elements must deliver at the limit of what is feasible. The Scottish Government has been clear that the UK Government’s work to support clean power must respect devolved powers, ambitions and policies, and ensure investor and industry confidence.

The Scottish Government is continuing to take action to drive progress towards our renewable energy ambitions, which play a key role in the UK government's Clean Power 2030 ambition. For example, in our budget for 2025-26 we are almost tripling our capital funding in offshore wind development to £150 million, to invest in the infrastructure and manufacturing facilities critical to growing the sector.

Scotland’s strong pipeline of renewables projects and growing supply chain will be vital to achieving a secure, affordable and clean power system. Our focus is on seizing the economic opportunities of Scotland's green energy potential in a way that secures clear benefits for communities and reduced costs for energy consumers. We are working closely with the UK government to ensure that the delivery of the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan supports these aims.

Decisions relating to the investigation and prosecution of crime, including speeding offences, are a matter for Police Scotland and COPFS, who are operationally independent of the Scottish Ministers.

Restrictions brought in to reduce the spread of coronavirus in 2020 led to a significant increase in the length of time it took for cases to progress through the court system. However, there has been considerable progress in addressing backlogs in the summary court system, aided by investment provided by the Scottish Government, with the number of outstanding scheduled summary trials reducing from an average of 38,089 in 2021-22 to 19,848 as of December 2024.

It is not possible to separately identify which prosecutions for assault were specifically for assaults on nurses

“Preparing Scotland” is a set of national guidance documents, currently under review, to assist stakeholders, including local authorities, in planning for, responding to and recovering from emergencies. It consists of a “Hub” which sets out the philosophy, principles and good practice for emergency response in Scotland, and “Spokes” that provide detailed guidance on specific matters. The spoke on “Responding to Emergencies” describes how resilience partnerships and SGORR activate, and how they meet, report and share information. In an emergency, and where the structures have been activated, local authorities engage with SGORR as part of a resilience partnership.

The Scottish Government Resilience Room (SGORR) is the Scottish Government’s central co-ordination mechanism for responding to civil contingencies emergencies. SGORR activates when and for as long as the severity and complexity of an emergency is such that urgent co-ordination, support or strategic direction from or within the Scottish Government is required and cannot be provided effectively through business-as-usual structures or other Scottish Government response mechanisms. Incidents which may meet this threshold include but are not restricted to severe weather events; terrorist attacks; pandemics; significant disruption to the supply of essential services/utilities or large-scale public disorder.

The Scottish Government Resilience Room (SGORR) provides Scottish Ministers and senior officials with situational awareness, enabling them to make informed strategic decisions on the Scottish Government’s response to civil contingencies emergencies. SGORR provides this situational awareness, using relevant facilities, by supplying written and verbal briefings, organising meetings at official or ministerial level and making connections across and outside the Scottish Government, with SGORR working closely with responders at all levels in Scotland and with the UK Government where relevant to the response.

The Scottish Government does not hold this data.

The Scottish Government does not hold this data.

It is not possible to identify which charges and prosecutions for assault were specifically of assaults on nurses.