Whether it plans to review the law on residential designated disabled parking spaces to give them a stronger legally enforceable status.

On 31 March, we launched a consultation entitled' Improving Parking in Scotland', which closed on 30 June 2017 for the general public and 31 August for local authorities and Regional Transport Partnerships. The consultation paper considered how parking is currently managed and enforced across the country. Our consultation sought views about the enforcement of disabled persons’ parking places, and in particular, what opportunities there are to deal with the misuse of advisory parking places in residential and supermarket car parks.
In addition, I give evidence to the Local Government and Communities Committee on 21 June, in response to its post legislative scrutiny of the Disabled Persons' Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009. The findings of our consultation paper and the Committee’s findings of its post legislative scrutiny of the 2009 Act will inform our next steps in how disabled parking bays are managed and enforced.
Furthermore, officials will continue to support local authorities on this issue and have also set up a stakeholder event on 9 October with parking managers from all local authorities in Scotland to explore how we can resolve some of the issues related to the 2009 Act.