Connecting Scotland - Amendment 2
Submitted by:
Mark Ruskell
Date lodged:
Tuesday, 09 December 2025
Motion type: Amendment
Motion reference: S6M-20057.2
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 10 December 2025
As an amendment to motion S6M-20057 in the name of Sue Webber (Connecting Scotland), leave out from “recognises” to end and insert “believes that future transport investment must prioritise sustainability, equality, public transport and active travel over large-scale road building, and further believes that investment in roads should improve safety, address maintenance backlogs, deliver climate resilience on vulnerable routes, including the A83, help prioritise road space for buses and be matched with ambitious investment in rail, including upgrading the Highland Mainline and reconnecting communities, such as Newburgh, to the rail network.”
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8 for, 114 against, 0 abstained, 7 did not vote
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Scottish National Party
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0 abstained
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Stevenson, Collette Doris, Bob McAllan, Màiri Maguire, Ruth Swinney, John Grahame, Christine Mackay, Rona Stewart, Kaukab Adam, Karen Yousaf, Humza Gilruth, Jenny Stewart, Kevin Matheson, Michael Hepburn, Jamie Dey, Graeme Callaghan, Stephanie Torrance, David Haughey, Clare Sturgeon, Nicola Robertson, Angus Adamson, Clare MacGregor, Fulton Constance, Angela Brown, Siobhian Brown, Keith Martin, Gillian Nicoll, Audrey MacDonald, Gordon Ewing, Annabelle McKee, Ivan Lochhead, Richard Fairlie, Jim Dunbar, Jackie Robison, Shona Gougeon, Mairi Gibson, Kenneth Thomson, Michelle Adam, George Beattie, Colin Dornan, James Todd, Maree Kidd, Bill Minto, Jenni Tweed, Evelyn Don-Innes, Natalie Harper, Emma FitzPatrick, Joe Arthur, Tom Allan, Dr Alasdair Roddick, Emma McLennan, Paul McMillan, Stuart Whitham, Elena Forbes, Kate Macpherson, Ben Coffey, Willie Gray, Neil Somerville, Shirley-Anne Hyslop, Fiona
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McCall, Roz Ross, Douglas Fraser, Murdo Carlaw, Jackson Hoy, Craig Webber, Sue Dowey, Sharon Burnett, Alexander Whittle, Brian Golden, Maurice Eagle, Tim Kerr, Stephen Gosal, Pam White, Tess Halcro Johnston, Jamie Stewart, Alexander Gallacher, Meghan Wells, Annie Carson, Finlay Mundell, Oliver Briggs, Miles Findlay, Russell Hamilton, Rachael Lumsden, Douglas Smith, Liz Mountain, Edward Kerr, Liam Gulhane, Sandesh
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Scottish Labour
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Villalba, Mercedes O'Kane, Paul Sweeney, Paul Bibby, Neil Sarwar, Anas Leonard, Richard McNeill, Pauline Grant, Rhoda Boyack, Sarah Lennon, Monica Whitfield, Martin Mochan, Carol Duncan-Glancy, Pam Baillie, Jackie Johnson, Daniel Russell, Davy Baker, Claire Griffin, Mark Clark, Katy
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Scottish Green Party
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Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Reform UK
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Related motion
Motion ref. S6M-20057
Submitted by: Sue Webber, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Monday, December 8, 2025
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Amendments
Motion ref. S6M-20057.1
Submitted by: Daniel Johnson, Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Motion ref. S6M-20057.3
Submitted by: Fiona Hyslop, Linlithgow, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Supported by: Jim Fairlie