AQW 5990/17-22

Mr Andrew Muir
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 28/07/2020
Answered On Date: 04/08/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the (i) dates; and (ii) content of any recent engagements her Department has had with Scottish Government counterparts concerning the (a) South West Scotland Transport Study; and (b) upgrade of A75 and A77 in Scotland.

Answer:

Departmental officials have engaged with Transport Scotland on a number of occasions regarding the importance of the A75 and A77 as road freight routes to Scotland, England and onwards to Europe.

These engagements have included:

Meetings of the Strategic Roads in Britain Group hosted by the Department for Transport on 10th April 2019 and 20th March 2020 when there was discussion of BREXIT considerations and inter-regional Strategic Road improvements

The Scottish Transport Conference on 13th June 2019 in the context of the Scottish Transport Strategy and the forthcoming South West Scotland Transport Study

Discussion of the South West Scotland Transport Study on 6th July 2020 in the context of input to the consultation on the forthcoming Strategic Transport Project Review 2 which will consider the A75 and A77 upgrades in detail.