Request

At yesterday’s full board meeting of the Scottish Police Authority board member Alasdair Hay, during the examination of Police Scotland’s policies on the recording of sex and gender (from 30:00 on the livestream recording), stated;

“Obviously the statistics within Police Scotland are accredited, which I understand is not the case with all forces in England and Wales, by the Office for National Statistics, and in terms of the development of policy and practice going forward, the authoritative nature of that data and statistics is something that’s important, and you know we really need to strive to maintain that, so it’s not the substantive point today but it is an important issue that needs to be recognised.”

In terms of the legislation I hereby request the following;

1. Details of the relevant statistics to which Mr Hay was referring to within the Police Service of Scotland
2. Details of the relevant statistics to which Mr Hay was referring to across the relevant forces in England and Wales, as well as details of the forces that directly relate to his comments.
3. Details of SPA internally produced documents which may exist to support the comments of Mr Hay

4. Details of any other documents in the possession of the SPA which support the comments of Mr Hay

5. Details of any and all correspondence relating to any pre meet of the SPA (with or without Police Scotland) in the days preceding the formal meeting of the Board. For the avoidance of doubt this includes all emails (internal and external), informal briefing notes, as well as hand written notes, minutes and draft minutes - but only insofar as they are relevant to this specific agenda