MSP and Transport Scotland meetings relating to A9 dualling target: EIR release

Information requested

Can you confirm when Jenny Gilruth MSP was first informed by Transport Scotland that the 2025 target to dual the A9 would not be met?

Can you confirm when John Swinney MSP was first informed by Transport Scotland that the 2025 target to dual the A9 would not be met?

Can you confirm when John Swinney MSP was first informed by Jenny Gilruth MSP that the 2025 target to dual the A9 would not be met?

Can you confirm when the fact that the 2025 target to dual the A9 would be missed was first discussed in a Scottish Government Cabinet meeting by ministers?

Response

Can you confirm when Jenny Gilruth MSP was first informed by Transport Scotland that the 2025 target to dual the A9 would not be met?

Under regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs, we do not have to give you information which is already publicly available and easily accessible to you in another form or format. This information has been released under Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and can be accessed via the Scottish Government’s website online at; https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202300342847/

Can you confirm when John Swinney MSP was first informed by Transport Scotland that the 2025 target to dual the A9 would not be met?

Please refer to the above link.

Can you confirm when John Swinney MSP was first informed by Jenny Gilruth MSP that the 2025 target to dual the A9 would not be met?

Please refer to the above link.

Can you confirm when the fact that the 2025 target to dual the A9 would be missed was first discussed in a Scottish Government Cabinet meeting by ministers?

I can confirm that the fact that the 2025 target to dual the A9 would be missed has not yet been discussed at Cabinet.

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