The Act Publication and laying of strategy
16.Section 3(1) requires the Scottish Ministers to publish the national transport strategy in such manner as they consider appropriate and lay a copy of this before Parliament. Ministers are therefore afforded a wide range of discretion as to how the national transport strategy is published.
17.Section 3(2)(a) and (b) requires the Scottish Ministers, as soon as practicable following the strategy’s publication, to publish and lay before Parliament a report on the consultation undertaken in connection with the strategy. Section 3(2)(c) further requires Ministers to make a statement to the Scottish Parliament on the contents of the strategy, as soon as reasonably practicable following its publication.