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Question reference: S6W-42667

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 8 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding from the Sea Eagle Management Scheme was awarded to applicants in each year since 2021.

The total funding support, through NatureScot Management Agreements, awarded to participating holdings in the Sea Eagle Management Scheme in each year since 2021 are as follows:

Year	Participating Holdings	Total Funding Support
2021	137	£227,008.43
2022	158	£265,980.83
2023	184	£315,063.59
2024	194	£345,515.55
2025	172	£530,954.64*

*Please note for 2025 final spend is not yet confirmed and total is as of 18 December 2025.

Question reference: S6W-42604

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been allocated to Bikeability training in Lanarkshire since its introduction in 2010–11, and what plans it has to increase uptake among primary school pupils.

The Scottish Government is providing £2.5 million to Cycling Scotland to deliver the Bikeability programme in 2025-26.

Since 2012-13, local authorities have applied for funding distributed by Cycling Scotland, on behalf of Transport Scotland, to overcome barriers and increase participation in Bikeability Scotland on-road Cycle Training.

Between 2012-2013 and 2025-2026 the following has been awarded:

- South Lanarkshire: £289,153
- North Lanarkshire: £315,690

In the current academic session (2025-2026) South Lanarkshire has been awarded £41,667 to support additional coordination time and an increase in instructor capacity. Funding will assist South Lanarkshire to reach their target of 55 participating primary schools, with 2,500 pupils participating across Level 1 and Level 2 training.

North Lanarkshire has been awarded £46,641, to support additional instructor time, and to increase the number of bikes available to pupils during training. Funding will assist North Lanarkshire to reach their target of 60 participating primary schools, and 4,000 pupils participating across Level 1 and Level 2 training.

The funding above does not include the value of support that each local authority contributes to the programme, including staff and teacher time. For the last full academic session (2024-2025) Cycling Scotland estimate this is valued at:

- South Lanarkshire: £43,406
- North Lanarkshire: £75,752

Bikeability Scotland is delivered in partnership with Scottish local authorities and takes place under the local operating guidelines. Within South Lanarkshire, Bikeability Scotland delivery is coordinated by Traffic and Transport. Within North Lanarkshire, Bikeability Scotland delivery is coordinated by Active North Lanarkshire.

In addition to grant funding, Cycling Scotland supplies training resources for all instructors, pupils and parents, and delivers fully-funded training for all staff and volunteers to become instructors.

Learn-to-ride

To support more children to develop the skills necessary to participate in Bikeability Scotland on-road cycle training, Cycling Scotland has partnered with local early years teams to introduce learn-to-ride activities in the nursery setting.

North Lanarkshire staff helped co-design the original Play on Pedals training resources in 2014. Since 2015, Cycling Scotland has provided funding totally £50,661 to contribute to the Early Years team’s success in providing Play on Pedals in every North Lanarkshire Council run nursery.

Strategy

Cycling Scotland has published the Bikeability Strategy Doc 2025 to 2028. This was agreed by the Bikeability Scotland Delivery Group, following consultation with all local authority coordinators, and sets out the strategic direction that every child should have access to Bikeability, delivered to a high quality and coordinated to meet local requirements.

Question reference: S6W-42607

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how it monitors the effectiveness of Safe Routes to School programmes in Lanarkshire, and what improvements are planned for 2026.

The Scottish Government is committed to making it safer and easier for people of all ages and abilities to choose active and sustainable travel.

The focus of active travel delivery at a local level is a matter for each Local Authority, but funding from the Scottish Government comes with a requirement to demonstrate delivery against the First Minister’s priorities.

Through a variety of programmes, including Tier 1 and Tier 2 of the Active Travel Infrastructure Fund, the People and Place Programme and Bikeability, Transport Scotland provides access to funding for Local Authorities that to support safer journeys to and from school.

The effectiveness of these programmes are monitored through individual project monitoring and evaluation at a national level through publications such as the Children’s Walking and Cycling Index, and the Hands up Scotland Survey, that since 2008 has presented information on how pupils across Scotland travel to school and nursery. Earlier this year, Cycling Scotland also published a three year independent evaluation of Bikeability.

Subject to the budget receiving parliamentary approval, in 2026-27 we will continue to work in partnership with Local Authorities and Regional Transport Partnerships to deliver active travel investments in our communities, including through the Active Travel Infrastructure Fund to improve infrastructure, and through our regional People and Place behaviour change programme and Bikeability to provide the skills and knowledge for school pupils to make safe journeys to and from school.

Question reference: S6W-42610

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 15 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what data it holds on accidents involving e-bikes and e-scooters in Scotland in the past three years, and what steps it is taking to reduce injuries and fatalities associated with their use.

Data on collisions which cause injury and take place on the road network, including adjacent pavements and cycle lanes, is collected by Police Scotland as part of the Great Britain-wide dataset known as STATS19.

The following tables provide the number of injury road collisions recorded as involving an e-bike or an e-scooter over the last three full calendar years.

Number of injury road collisions involving e-bikes, by severity

	Fatal	Serious	Slight	Total
2022	0	0	4	4
2023	0	4	3	7
2024	0	4	5	9

Number of injury road collisions involving e-scooters, by severity

	Fatal	Serious	Slight	Total
2022	0	4	4	8
2023	1	8	7	16
2024	0	6	10	16

E-scooters and e-bikes are not designated vehicle types collected within STATS19, and as such they can only be identified using free-text fields which capture other vehicles and similar. This is likely to represent an incomplete record of e-bikes in particular, as it is not always possible to identify where e-bikes may have been recorded as bicycle or electric motorcycle, which are both designated vehicle types.

The Scottish Government is committed to enhancing safety across Scotland’s road network. Scotland’s Road Safety Framework to 2030 sets out a vision for Scotland to have the best road safety performance in the world by 2030. This contains mode and user specific targets focussed on our priority areas.

In the 2025-26 financial year, the Scottish Government has invested a record £48m in road safety, alongside significant investment in sustainable and active travel programmes to promote safety.

A dedicated stakeholder group has also been established to monitor risks, identify emerging trends, and develop targeted measures for vulnerable road users.

Question reference: S6W-42612

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 15 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of e-bike and e-scooter use on pedestrian safety, particularly for older people and those with disabilities.

I refer the member to answer to question S6W-32672 on 9 January 2025. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

Transport Scotland is also undertaking policy development work on e-scooters, part of which will involve stakeholder engagement and public consultation which will include assessment of their impact on the perceived safety to older people and those with disabilities.

Question reference: S6W-42550

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many trunk road bridges have been placed into so-called managed decline in each year since 2021.

Question reference: S6W-42526

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 8 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many people who were patients at Inverclyde Royal Hospital have been subject to delayed discharge despite being deemed clinically fit, in each of the last 12 months.

Public Health Scotland publishes Official Statistics on Delayed Discharge in NHS Scotland monthly.

https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/delayed-discharges-in-nhsscotland-monthly/delayed-discharges-in-nhs-scotland-monthly-figures-for-october-2025

The number of Inverclyde residents delayed in hospital at each monthly census point up to October 2025 can be found in the summary tables of this publication.

Question reference: S6W-42492

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42170 by Fiona Hyslop on 5 December 2025, what information it holds on whether any public bodies receive reports from Peel Ports and The King's Harbour Master regarding the monitoring of container traffic on the River Clyde.

Question reference: S6W-42750

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will undertake an analysis of the operation of the thrice-weekly rail link between the Port of Liverpool and the Mossend EuroTerminal in North Lanarkshire since it was established in 2018, regarding what effect it has had on displacing container shipping volumes from the Port of Greenock on the River Clyde, which reportedly has the capacity to handle a throughput of 100,000 TEU per year.

Question reference: S6W-42738

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 8 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many formal complaints have been raised by its civil servants regarding hybrid working directives since October 2025, also broken down by how many claims have been (a) upheld and (b) rejected.

Parliament dissolved ahead of election

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