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Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy, 29 May 2024
 publication of the fourth annual Climate Change Plan Monitoring Report

Correspondence May. 29 2024

Committee: Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Found: ’s roads by 2050.

Select Committee
Thirty-Fifth Report - Supporting mobile connectivity

Report May. 28 2024

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: However, the Department is unclear on how many premises and roads had gained 4G connectivity so far

Select Committee
First Report - The work of the Transport Committee in the 2019 Parliament

Report May. 28 2024

Committee: Transport Committee (Department: Department for Transport)

Found: As a first step, we welcome the suggestion of the Minister for Roads and Local Transport, Guy Opperman

Select Committee
University of Glasgow
 AIG0014 - Use of artificial intelligence in government

Written Evidence May. 28 2024

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: We are in a world that our public transport, roads, and other everyday infrastructure has better

Scottish Parliament Written Question
S6W-27455
Tuesday 28th May 2024

Asked by: Ruskell, Mark (Scottish Green Party - Mid Scotland and Fife)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason non-compliance with the Safety at Street Works and Road Works Code of Practice 2013 is a criminal offence in the rest of the UK, but not in Scotland, and whether it has any plans to introduce a criminal offence for such non-compliance.

Answered by Hyslop, Fiona - Minister for Transport

It is an offence in Scotland, as it is in England and Wales, for utilities to fail to secure the safety of road works by ensuring that those works are adequately guarded and lit and that appropriate traffic signs are placed to guide and direct persons using the road. The Scottish Ministers may issue or approve codes of practice giving practical guidance to utilities in respect of these duties and this is incorporated in the Safety at Street Works and Road Works Code of Practice 2013. A failure to comply with the Code of Practice is evidence of a failure to discharge the relevant safety duties and accordingly evidence that an offence has been committed. These requirements for utilities arise from the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.

For roads and highway authorities the equivalent legislation is the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (covering Scotland), and the Highways Act 1980 (Covering England and Wales). While the 1980 Act also included a provision for a mandatory Code of Practice on safety, the 1984 Act did not, and so it was not previously possible to prescribe a mandatory Code for Scottish roads authorities on this topic. As this omission predates the formation of the Scottish Parliament, we cannot provide detail of the policy rationale of the time. This was rectified in 2019, when the Scottish Government made the necessary legislative changes to the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 to extend the requirement to follow the mandatory safety Code of Practice to Scottish Roads authorities. The legislation which requires Scottish roads authorities to follow the mandatory Code of Practice has now been in force since 10 January 2022. The 2013 version of the Code of Practice is currently under review, which will result in an amended foreword, including Scottish road authorities in the list of bodies the Code applies to.

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Councillors’ Remuneration and Expenses (Recommendations) - Tue 28 May 2024

Mentions:
1: None media were used fairly frequently to report on issues, make complaints or report faults in housing and roads - Speech Link
2: None That includes councillor safety, tackling barriers to candidacy, working culture in council, female councillors - Speech Link
3: None For example, we have done a good piece of work with Police Scotland on councillor safety. - Speech Link
4: None keen to continue to support our elected members in that regard.There are also issues with councillor safety - Speech Link

Select Committee
Correspondence from Chief Data Officer, National Highways relating to follow-up to evidence session, dated 23 May 2024

Correspondence May. 24 2024

Committee: Transport Committee (Department: Department for Transport)

Found: customer at the centre of our data strategy , which means that we are focussed on using data to improve safety

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Cabinet Office

May. 24 2024

Source Page: Procurement Act 2023 guidance documents - Plan phase
Document: (PDF)

Found: the Public Works Loan Board, when they require funding, for example, for capital projects such as new roads

Commons Chamber
Petitions - Thu 23 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) Since then, the petitioner has been keen to raise awareness about water safety, and to promote new measures - Speech Link
2: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) I very much hope that some of the £289 million of funding announced by this Government for roads in Shropshire - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Portfolio Question Time - Thu 23 May 2024

Mentions:
1: Lumsden, Douglas (Con - North East Scotland) To ask the Scottish Government how much it spent in 2023-24 on safety improvements to trunk roads in - Speech Link
2: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) Some £2.7 million was spent on construction of casualty-reduction safety improvements to trunk roads - Speech Link
3: Ewing, Annabelle (SNP - Cowdenbeath) to trunk roads in the North East Scotland region. - Speech Link
4: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) and risks on our roads, which is delivering on our priorities in the road safety framework. - Speech Link