Scottish Government Resilience Room

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.

Scottish Government Resilience Room
LocationEdinburgh
CountryScotland
PurposeCrisis management centre

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.

Membership

The Scottish Government Resilience Room is run by a sub-committee of the Cabinet. There is no official membership of SGoRR,[2] however, those who regularly attend are as follows:

References
  1. "Official view on airport incident". BBC News. 1 July 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  2. "Resilience Committee Meetings: FOI release". gov.scot. Scottish Government. Retrieved 3 May 2020.


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