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Scottish Government Resilience Room

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Scottish Government Resilience Room
LocationEdinburgh
CountryScotland
PurposeCrisis management centre

The Scottish Government Resilience Room (SGoRR; prior to February 2008 called the Scottish Government Emergency Room or SEER, from the former name Scottish Executive Emergency Room) is a coordination facility of the Scottish Government that is activated in cases of national emergency or crisis, or during events abroad with major implications for the United Kingdom.

A meeting in SEER was held on the 1 July 2007 due to the terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport.[1]

It is the Scottish equivalent of the United States' Situation Room in Washington, D.C. and the United Kingdom's Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms in Whitehall.

Management

The Scottish Government Resilience Room is run by a sub-committee of the Cabinet: Membership: Cabinet Secretary for Justice (Convener), the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment and the Lord Advocate.

References

  1. ^ "Official view on airport incident". BBC News. 1 July 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2017.