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No meetings have taken place in 2018 with officials from the European Commission to discuss public ferry procurement issues. We continue to communicate with the European Commission on these issues and have requested a meeting. We remain in correspondence with the European Commission about arrangements for this meeting and our future approach to the procurement of ferry services, details of which will be made available when we announce the approach to be taken to the procurement of the Northern Isles services later in the spring.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-15508 on 29 March 2018. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .

253 are wheelchair accessible. Of the 106 remaining, only 76 of these stations are inaccessible to both platforms whilst 30 of them have access to one platform.

Between 20 August 2017 and 3 February 2018 (rail periods 6-11 inclusive), 1.06 percent of the total numbers of services planned to be run over this period were skip-stopped.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information in this form. The Member may care to approach ScotRail directly to ascertain if they hold this information or not.

A table providing a detailed listing of by-period targets is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. Number 59592).

Neither Scottish Government or Transport Scotland hold this information. However ScotRail have provided the data it records for all incidents of passengers taking ill either at station or on train.

These figures confirm that of the 149 incidents recorded of passengers taking ill whilst travelling on ScotRail services during the last 12 months, 116 required an ambulance to attend.

Neither Scottish Government or Transport Scotland hold this information. However ScotRail have provided the data it records for all incidents of passengers taking ill either at station or on train.

These figures confirm that 149 incidents have been recorded of passengers taking ill whilst travelling on ScotRail services during the last 12 months.

The type of illness/incident is recorded if known or obvious, the underlying detail is not be an aspect which would be routinely requested from passengers and therefore we cannot provide an answer to the question pertaining to travelling conditions.

Equality legislation is reserved to the UK Government and as such funding to make stations accessible is with the UK Government.

However, the Scottish Government continues to support substantial accessibility improvements to railway stations. I can tell you that currently there are eight (8) stations due to be upgraded, five (5) of which are funded by this government and two (2) being funded by the Access for All UK Programme.

There is additional funding in CP6 to continue with Access for All UK Programme and Transport Scotland is working with the Department for Transport to agree scope and priority for more stations.

Glasgow Prestwick Airport is operated on a commercial basis and at arm’s length from the Scottish Government in compliance with EU State Aid rules. The Scottish Government does not hold information on the purpose of the flight of any aircraft using Scottish airports. The UK Government is responsible for determining which airlines and aircraft can use UK airspace.