Meeting of the Parliament 20 November 2024
The business motion adds a statement next Thursday on the publication of the A96 corridor review. Therefore, I wonder whether I can ask the minister, not for details of what will be in the statement, but for information on two points. First, the corridor review was due two years ago, in December 2022, and it has been delayed since then. According to Transport Scotland, there have been 4,600 responses and 11,000 options. Can the minister confirm that members will have sight of the corridor review well in advance of the statement, so that they are able to go through the considerable document and can challenge ministers effectively?
Secondly, without saying what the outcome of the review is, can the minister say whether it is the intention of the Government to give a recommendation to Parliament next week? Again, the communities in Moray, the Highlands and Aberdeenshire have been waiting an awful long time for the outcome of the review, which has so far cost taxpayers £6 million, and they want to know whether, next Thursday, there will be a guarantee that, finally, the Scottish National Party Government will deliver its commitment to fully dual the A96 from Inverness to Aberdeen.
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