Removal of Tolls from the Erskine Bridge

The amendment

As an amendment to motion S2M-04049 in the name of Jackie Baillie (Removal of Tolls from the Erskine Bridge), leave out from “congratulates” to end and insert “notes that the bridge tolls were re-introduced under emergency legislation on 6 September 2001 by the Labour/Liberal Democrat Scottish government and backed by their unionist partners, the Scottish Tories; further notes that this emergency legislation was backed by elected members representing West of Scotland constituencies, Jackie Baillie MSP, Trish Godman MSP, Wendy Alexander MSP, Hugh Henry MSP, Duncan McNeil MSP, Ross Finnie MSP, Annabel Goldie MSP and Murray Tosh MSP, and calls on these members to apologise publicly for extending the Erskine Bridge toll tax for a further four and a half years.”


No recorded vote on this amendment. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 4 SSP 2

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2M-04049.1 by reference.