Meeting of the Parliament 18 March 2026 [Draft]
It is important for me to say at the outset—because I have a declaration of interest to make—that my primary responsibility when answering these questions is to Alexander Dennis and that I have no role at all in ScotZEB 3, for very important proprietary reasons. ScotZEB 3 is led by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, because Transport Scotland is the procuring authority, as it were. It has made the decision to extend the ScotZEB 2 programme. It will be for the transport secretary to announce the conclusions and outcomes of ScotZEB 3, which opened for applications on 5 December.
I appreciate the question, but that will be disappointing to Stephen Kerr, who wants something a bit more robust, but I hope that he appreciates that it is critical that I am kept at arm’s length from the ScotZEB 3 process.