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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S5W-22271

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 April 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the proposed workplace parking levy will not apply to parking spaces for disabled people.

Question reference: S5W-21479

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-03037 by John Swinney on 7 February 2019 (Official Report, c. 9), what information it has regarding how many employers in each local authority area provide 11 or more staff parking spaces for employees.

Question reference: S5W-21475

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-03037 by John Swinney on 7 February 2019 (Official Report, c. 9), what (a) economic modelling and (b) impact assessment it will carry out on the possible impact of workplace parking levies.

Question reference: S5W-21482

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 8 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-03037 by John Swinney on 7 February 2019 (Official Report, c. 9), which organisations are the 10 largest private employers in each parliamentary region, also broken down by which it has met to discuss (a) employee travel to work and (b) workplace parking levies.

The Scottish Government met with a number of organisations to discuss the principle of a Workplace Parking Levy following the commitment given at the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee to explore Local Authorities’ appetite for these powers. These meetings were with COSLA on 8 and 23 January 2019 and 19 February; with Regional Transport Partnerships (RTPs) on 9 January; with the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) on 10 January and with City of Edinburgh Council on 5 February. The Scottish Government met with the Federation of Small Business on 19 February. In addition, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, the Economy and Fair Work and the Minister for Public Finance and the Digital Economy met the main business representative organisations (Scottish Chambers of Commerce, CBI Scotland, FSB Scotland, IoD Scotland, SCDI and Scottish Financial Enterprise) to discuss the budget on 5 February ,where Workplace Parking Levies was one of the topics discussed.

Question reference: S5W-21480

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 8 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, S5F-03037 by John Swinney on 7 February 2019 (Official Report, c. 9), what analysis it has carried out of the potential modal shift that could be achieved through workplace parking levies.

Question reference: S5W-21481

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 8 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-03037 by John Swinney on 7 February 2019 (Official Report, c. 9), how many public transport timetable changes would be required in travel-to-work areas to ensure that (a) 50, (b) 60, (c) 70, (d) 80, (e) 90 and (f)100% of employees could travel to work without use of a private car in less than (i) one hour, (ii) two hours and (iii) three hours.

Question reference: S5W-21478

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-03037 by John Swinney on 7 February 2019 (Official Report, c. 9), how much each local authority could raise in the first full year of a workplace parking levy if a model similar to that used in Nottingham was introduced.

Question reference: S5W-21484

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-03042 by John Swinney on 7 February 2019 (Official Report, c. 22), what its response is to the call by the EIS for schools to be exempt from workplace parking levies.

Question reference: S5W-21483

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-03042 by John Swinney on 7 February 2019 (Official Report, c. 22), for what reason it considers that all NHS workplaces should be exempt from workplace parking levies.

Question reference: S5W-21477

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-03037 by John Swinney on 7 February 2019 (Official Report, c. 9), how many workplace parking spaces there are on its estate, broken down by local authority area; what the impact would be on its employees who use these spaces if a workplace parking levy similar to that used in Nottingham was introduced, and what information it has regarding the number of parking spaces in the estates of other public bodies and the impact on their employees.

The breakdown of workplace parking spaces in the main buildings of the Scottish Government estate is as follows:

Local Authority Area	Parking spaces	Parking spaces less disabled parking, visitor parking etc.
Aberdeen City Council	128	119
City of Edinburgh Council	1,121	934
Glasgow City Council	65	54
Total	1,314	1,107

The Workplace Parking Levy will be a discretionary power for local authorities. Any impact on employees would depend on how a scheme is introduced at a local level by local authorities using these discretionary powers. The Scottish Government does not hold information on the parking spaces in the estates of other public bodies.