Mentions:
1: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) consultants at the Queen Elizabeth university hospital have written to the watchdog to raise serious patient safety - Speech Link
2: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) He said last week, and repeated in the media round this morning, that“all roads ... lead ... to Westminster - Speech Link
3: Minto, Jenni (SNP - Argyll and Bute) reports enable health boards to understand the causes of incidents, share learning to improve patient safety - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: Halcro Johnston, Jamie (Con - Highlands and Islands) The roads were blocked, and help, had we needed it, could not have got to us easily. - Speech Link
2: Carson, Finlay (Con - Galloway and West Dumfries) presence of a flame in stoves, fireplace inserts or candles in a household can connote homeliness and safety - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: Sturgeon, Nicola (SNP - Glasgow Southside) the project and the reasons for making the commitment to dualling the A9 were so serious and involved safety - Speech Link
2: Ewing, Fergus (SNP - Inverness and Nairn) the preferred route, the progress to made orders, the compulsory purchase orders and the ancillary roads - Speech Link
3: Sturgeon, Nicola (SNP - Glasgow Southside) is a really good question, and I think that it is an important question when we are considering any roads - Speech Link

Correspondence May. 29 2024

Found: ’s roads by 2050.

S6W-27455

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.

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