 The next item of business is a member's business debate on motion 8077, in the name of Clare Adamson, on road safety week 2017. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put. I would encourage members who wish to speak in the debate to press their request to speak buttons now, and I call on Clare Adamson to open the debate. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank the members from across the chamber who supported my motion and for those members who will be speaking this evening. I would also like to thank the charity break for their efforts in promoting road safety week and for all of their efforts to reduce injury and deaths on our roads throughout the year. As a convener of the cross-party group on accident prevention safety awareness, it has been my pleasure to work with many charitable organisations such as ROSPA, local authorities, insurance companies and government agencies who seek to improve safety on our roads. The next year's campaign is about reducing speed. Speed down saves lives. It focuses on driving over the speed limit and on asking drivers to consider how fast they are driving in certain situations. Many of us will remember the harrowing road safety advice advert of a little girl explaining the different levels of injury sustained at different speeds and the very graphic images from that. That was in 2009—I cannot believe that it is so long ago—but she explains that at an 80 per cent survival rate for someone who is hit at 30 miles per hour, and that decreases rapidly the faster that you drive. When we have moved on from there, and now 20 plenty's campaigns have paid dividends in many local authority areas such as my own in North Lanarkshire in improving the reduction in injuries and deaths as a result of being involved in a road traffic accident, the adoption of that approach near schools and residential streets has been beneficial in many of our local authority areas. The Scottish Government is committed through the road safety framework to reducing risk on Scotland's road, and, in mid-term review of the framework concluded last year, it has identified speed, pedestrians and cyclists as priority areas for the activity through to 2020. Our road safety partners of the Government have a commitment to encourage local authorities to introduce 20 million hour zones or limits in residential areas and places with a high volume of pedestrians and cyclists. It is set out in the 2015 good practice guide for our local authorities. I fully support the Government's position on that area, but I know that my colleague Mark Ruskell will wish to talk about his proposed bill that would put that into statute. That is the point where I get to talk about two of the things that I am most interested in—safety awareness and digital technology. I want to talk about some of the modern applications to road safety that are available now. The campaign this year also focuses on intelligent speed adaptations. Intelligent speed adaptations, or ISAs, are an on-board system that helps the driver to comply with speed limits. It uses GPS to connect the vehicle to a digital road map and either advises the driver of the limit in an advisory ISA or can intervene in the operation of the vehicle to reduce the speed and alert the driver to the fact that they may be in danger of breaking the speed limit. Of course, it is dependent on having an accurate digital road map that reflects the local authority speed limits that have been imposed across Scotland. I ask the minister if he is possible to give us an update on how Scotland's development of such a digital map is going at the moment. Intelligent speed adaptations aid the driver and the rider in retaining road speeds and alert them to their own driving behaviour. Like black box technology, it has been proven to improve the driving capabilities of people over time by alerting them to behaviour that may be of a risky nature, such as breaking the speed limit but also excessive acceleration and excessive braking. I know that the insurance companies are very encouraged to support, especially for new drivers, and it can reduce your insurance premiums if you are willing to have a black box fitted into your car. What is really exciting is that black box technology and also the ISAs can also be rolled out into fleet vehicles making the operation of fleets for local authorities for other major companies that are using our roads to ensure that their driving is of the very safest it can be. This has been trialled across Europe, particularly in Denmark, and it is noted that it did cause not just a decrease in the average speeds of the people fitted with the devices but also the awareness of the devices in particular areas. It also seemed to have an effect on other vehicles in the area. It is something that would certainly improve our road safety and reduce the number of injuries and deaths. We know that almost 10,000 people were injured on the roads of Scotland in the 12 months to June. Recent figures show that professional statistics from the Department of Transport showed that 9,864 people were injured and 159 were killed in caches on Scotland's roads. That is something that we can do a lot to alleviate. It is something that we can prevent and anything that can be done should be considered a priority going forward, as nothing is more important than the safety of young vehicle drivers and young people in pedestrians and cyclists on a road. I finish by saying that, as well as the charities that have campaigned in this area for road safety, I also want to pay tribute to some of the charities that support people who are bereaved or have been involved in this, such as the road peace charity. It is an international charity that supports families and the victims of road traffic accidents. It also campaigned to improve legislation across the world and to highlight some of the new technologies and the information that is there. I thank again the chamber for coming together this evening to discuss this important matter, and I look forward to the rest of the debate. David Torrance, to be followed by Tom Mason. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Clare Ardinson for bringing forward this motion to the chamber this afternoon. To recognise the road safety week, the country's biggest road safety event. I would also like to thank Break Road Safety Charity Coordination events this week. Speed is one of the most common causes of road accidents. We know that the drivers' speed choice is influenced by many factors. They could be running late, they might be overtaking other drivers or trying to keep up with traffic, they might be driving on an empty road at night and they might even be speeding to stay awake. While we know that the driver behaviour is difficult to change, what is clear is that the best intervention and one that is the Scottish Government's priority is speed reduction. This is a theme of this year's road safety week, speed down, save lives, which focuses on the dangers of driving over a speed limit. A number of interventions has been identified to be effective in the management and control of vehicle speeds, and setting and enforcing a speed limit are two of the most effective measures. However, recent studies have shown that in many countries the introduction of speed limits will only have a short-lived effect on reducing speed unless speed-reducing legislation is accompanied by sustained visible enforcement of these limits. The biggest challenge that we face is to change driver perceptions on speeding, and this is certainly a great challenge to overcome. Inappropriate speed contributes to around 6 per cent of all injury collisions reported to police. Speed not only affects road safety but also the environment as a result of the high levels of exhaustive emissions, high levels of traffic noise fuel consumption and has enormous impact on the quality of life for people living or working near busy roads. High speeds and large speeds variations have a negative effect on each of those factors, therefore the road safety policy and environment policy should have much in common. It is imperative that road safety organisations and charities co-operate with environmental groups. Smart traffic lights are currently being developed in order to reduce the vehicle emissions, combining existing technology with artificial intelligence so that traffic lights communicate with each other and adapt to change traffic conditions to reduce the amount of time that cars spend island. The pilot study results show that the amount of time that motorists spend island at lights was reduced by 40 per cent and travel times were reduced by 25 per cent. A similar system across Scotland would have a massive benefit not only for road safety of passengers and drivers as it encourages motorists to stay within speed limits but also to the environment. Scotland roads are among the safest in the world, however it has continued still to be far too many deaths and serious injuries on Scotland roads. The Safe Drives Day Alive campaign recently celebrates 15 years of promoting road safety in Fife, with angrifent interactives hosted at Rhoffis halls in Glen Rhoffis. The road show highlights the dangers faced by new and young drivers on Fife roads and demonstrates to visitors what happens when you are not in control of your surroundings. Practitioners from all emergency services were on hand to explain the role in the aftermath of a traffic accident. The importance of those events cannot be overstated and I welcome the continued work of the campaign. Speeding traffic and its effect on road safety is a major concern and it is a regular topic of discussions at many community councils and tenants and residents association meetings held across my constituency. The majority of residents are strongly in favour of extending the 20-mile per hour speed limits. However, as with local authorities across a wider Scotland, the limited funding that is available for introduction of 20-mile zones, schemes and associated traffic calming measures means that councils must use traffic surveys and accident data to identify which sites would benefit most from the introduction of traffic calming measures. The majority of pedestrian casualties occur in built-up areas. Cyclists are most vulnerable in built-up areas, while almost half of cyclist deaths and most cyclist casualties occur on those roads. Reducing speed limits to 20-mile an hour goes some way to balancing the needs of all users. As vehicles' speeds are reduced, people are more confident to walk and cycle within their streets whilst drastically reducing accidents. It is therefore our responsibility as policy makers to promote legislation that promotes economic growth by improving and maintaining infrastructure, promoting social inclusion by connecting remote communities as well as disadvantaged communities, investing in public transport and environmental forms of transportation and, ultimately, promoting safe measures by reducing the frequency and severity of accidents on our roads. Tom Mason, to be followed by David Stewart. Tom Mason, thank you and thanks to Claire Addison for bringing this motion forward particularly during road safety week. Arguably, the motor car has defined the modern era. We certainly have a deep relationship with the internal combustion engine since its introduction over 100 years ago. We all remember our first car, our first new car, our first sports car or even our first luxury car. In my case, they fell in love with three sports cars, Samantha, Clancy and Tiffany. For the petrolheads among you, they were MGs, a TC, a TD2 and a TF. For the car is a wonderful piece of kit. It takes us almost anywhere we want, when we want. We can store no end of personal possessions, anything from overnight cases to items that partners do not want in the house, including in my case, croaky clubs, personal music and even disgusting dog blankets. It becomes part of us and reflects our character and pastimes. It keeps us warm and we hope that it keeps us safe. Like all relationships, there are responsibilities and this is where problems can arise. When researching material for this debate, I read some harrowing figures. For example, on the A90 alone, there have been 19 collisions, 15 involved with multiple vehicles since August. That works out more than a crash a week on average, just for one road. Sadly, such targets and tragedies are not limited to the north. I am sure that most members have similar stories to tell. I am so pleased to support the road safety week, the work being done by break to raise awareness of the dangers of speeding. I think that there are specific problems, particularly with the unmotorists, who are less aware of their own mortality and less to fail to appreciate the risks involved with driving. The root causes of many accidents rate drivers' ability and road conditions themselves. Far too many roads are extremely narrow with unexpected bends, many of which are poorly signposted. Those factors can be a recipe for disaster, especially around this time of year. That is without mentioning relatively new problems caused by operating and looking at mobile phones or satellite navigation screens while driving. Technology may have advanced significantly over the past few years. My ability to multitask has not. Although I am encouraged by the improvements of safety features installed in cars in recent years, I hope that the trend continues. I believe that technology can help us here, and this has already been mentioned with the black box. All this makes the essential message of speed down safe lives more important. I believe that our driving training should do more to educate drivers on the very real dangers of speeding and the impact that the potential consequences have not just on them but on their families and many others. We have made the provision for all the drivers having to prove their ability to drive safely on a regular basis, so there is scope for examining how we improve standards in our younger drivers as well. We need to look at examples from overseas to achieve this. Presiding Officer, road safety week should remind us that our cars, while it is very useful, have the potential to be dangerous when not used properly. It is vital for safety on all our road users that we keep our speed to appropriate levels and not put our passengers and many others at risk. Speeding is not big and it is not clever. It can be lethal. With that in mind, I gladly support brake on the road safety week and we are supposed to success in the days and weeks to come. David Stewart is followed by Mark Ruskell. First of all, I congratulate Clare Adamson on securing this evening's debate and thank her for all the work that she does in accident prevention, particularly in the cross-party group. Road safety week is arranged, as we know annually, by the road safety charity brake, an organisation that has a tremendous amount towards education of all road users. Brake, in my view, is evangelistic about education and road safety and work, very diligently with schools, colleges and businesses. As we've heard, this year's campaign is speed down, designed to educate drivers about the dangers of excessive speed by highlighting the braking distance while driving at 30m 35m, which is two-car and three-car lengths respectively. We've heard already from Clare Adamson about some interesting statistics about speed. Let me throw another one into the mix. An American study by ProPoloCo showed that if a car is travelling at 45m an hour, any person hit will be killed. At 35m an hour, the chance has been killed plummet. Half of all elderly pedestrians would survive, but if we go down to 20m an hour, 93 per cent of all people hit would survive a crash. I hope that Mark Ruskell's bill is successful and I hope to be in a position to support it when it reaches the appropriate stage. For the past eight years, I've worked closely with brake and road safety issues. Along with the road safety group that I set up called Nostat, the North Scotland drivers awareness group, our group ran 24 road safety campaigns over an eight-year period. I'm delighted to announce that we picked up five brake campaign awards. The primary campaign that I launched was the proposal to introduce a graduated licence scheme for young and new drivers. I know that the transport minister has supported that proposal. The prompt for me to act was back in early 2010, when, after a double fatal road collision involving two 17-year-olds in the city of Inverness, I was contacted by constituents pleading with me to whatever I could to raise awareness of driving dangers and threats for young people and come up with a solution. The solution, as I said, was the graduated driving licence scheme. We didn't just pluck it from the air. The campaign was based on the evidence of well-respected academic Dr Sarah Jones of Cardiff University, who carried out 10 years of study into Scottish and Welsh road traffic collisions. Dr Jones' evidence that, if a graduate licence scheme was introduced in Scotland alone, up to £80 million could be saved to the Scottish economy and, more importantly, up to 22 lives could be saved per year. One young person is killed every week on a road in Scotland. Seventeen young people are seriously injured per week in Scotland, many of whom will be permanently disabled or scarred. Speed, bravadoe, inexperience, night driving, drink, drugs and distracting passengers can all be contributing factors to collisions. In America, New Zealand and Australia, the models of the graduated driving licence scheme can save young people's lives by planning for young drivers. There is no doubt that, in Scotland, there is a strong voice in support of this form of graduated licence, but do we let the death and injury among our young drivers continue or do we do more? We need to prevent unnecessary injury, disfigurement and death to our young people. Our next generation of drivers. For families who have lost loved ones, unfortunately, we cannot turn the clock back. We can, however, adopt a new, safer, proven driving regime aimed at slashing the loss of young people on our roads and preventing the deaths and injuries of our young drivers. I believe that some form of graduated licence scheme is the way ahead. Tom Payne, who is the American revolutionary author, said, we have not had the power to begin the world all over again. For the parents who have lost a child, that will be their dearest wish. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I join other members in thanking Clare Adamson for bringing forward the topic for debate and the considerable leadership that Clare Adamson and Dave Stewart bring to the Scottish Parliament on road safety issues. I would also like to thank Brake, who does some fantastic education work and support work, particularly for families who have been affected by the tragedy of a road accident, and, of course, Brake's theme this year, as we have heard already from members, is speed down, save lives. Brake is one of a number of organisations that are supporting my member's bill proposal to change the default speed limit in built-up areas from 30 to 20 miles an hour. I have been running a consultation, Presiding Officer, over the summer, gathering views from organisations and individuals across Scotland about the bill and about how it could be implemented. The figures show that 2,200 people responded over 80 per cent in favour. We know through studies into 20-mile-an-hour areas that post-implementation public support goes up for 20 miles an hour, rather than down. I think that we have a good basis now for me to go forward and to ask the permission of Parliament to introduce a member's bill to the chamber. Leading through the responses to the consultation, it is quite clear that the overriding concern of people is about road safety. Many people reflected on the fact that, even if we reduce speed by a modest amount, even just a one-mile-an-hour reduction in speed means that we can cut the accident rate by, in that case, 7 per cent. When I introduced the final bill proposal on Monday, I got a tweet that came in from a constituent. I'll read this out to you. He said, I was involved in a car crash on Saturday in a 20-mile-an-hour zone, both cars within the speed limit and six passengers between us. No one injured. I probably wouldn't have said that at 30 miles an hour. It's quite clear that reducing speed reduces the number of accidents but also the severity of the accidents. Of course, looking at some of the statistics that have been released by the Scottish Government, the brake has highlighted that excessive speed has been a major factor in 510 accidents in the last year. I think that we need to look at what the real experiences are of people who find themselves in that position. Reading through another couple of my bill consultation responses, I'll read these out as quotes, a pupil from my school was knocked down and killed last year on a road with a speed limit of 30 miles an hour. I wonder if a 20-mile-an-hour speed limit could have given a very different outcome to this tragic accident. The parent of two children who were struck by a vehicle travelling fast in a residential area while they were walking to school with their mother. I think that the views of my children and all the other children in traffic decisions are woefully underrepresented. Those decisions have direct impacts on the way they live yet they have no input into this process. If you ask children, they would say that they want a 20-mile-an-hour speed limit. For me, one of the driving purposes of this bill is to support vulnerable road users and to support the needs of children. I want to ensure that children's voices are heard if I am given the permission to now develop a bill. It is why the Royal College of Child and Pediatric Health, the NHS and many parent councils around Scotland are now backing the move for a default 20 miles an hour. Every fatal accident is an enormous tragedy. I saw the aftermath of a particular tragedy near my community on Friday. A 17-year-old man tragically lost his life between Dune and Calender. It is important that we set an objective of vision zero, that no death is acceptable. That is what we need to work towards. It may require the use of intelligent speed adaptation, the use of a graduate licence scheme and many other tools to tackle the issue. Speed limits are an important part of that mix. The United Nations now has set 20 miles an hour as a global standard on streets where traffic mixes with pedestrians and cyclists. There is an opportunity for Scotland to be progressive here, to take a global lead and to follow in the good footsteps of other countries and their cities in designating 20 miles an hour, as the default, the proper speed for built-up areas. I would also like to extend my thanks to Clare Adamson for bringing this road safety week debate to the chamber this evening, particularly because the dangers posed by vehicles going too fast is something that affects communities right across the country. We know that across Scotland, in built-up areas, there are streets frequented by many road users—children, families, cyclists and walkers—and many of those streets are rightfully set already at 20 miles per hour speed limit for the safety of those individuals. Yet too often, cars come barrelling down those roads at extremely high speeds and compromise the safety that the speed limits are meant to maintain. Road safety week provides the means for individuals, organisations, businesses and MSPs to tackle speeding in their communities head-on. In my constituency of Edinburgh Eastern, there is a road that runs past Cregantonne primary school, where I have had reports of vehicles being driven at speeds of between 40 and 60 miles per hour. That is especially dangerous because it is a busy junction, and pedestrians, including school children, are crossing it regularly. Driving at double the speed limit in this area and being frequented by children crossing the road is particularly reckless, especially because we know that one in four fatal crashes in the UK involve speeding as a contributory factor. I have already taken several steps in trying to make that particular road safer, including working with the school PTA and a local councillor in order to try to get a crossing patrol put in. Unfortunately, that junction did not meet the criteria for a patrol, so I am now going to change and try to push for either a zebra or a pelican crossing it instead. In addition, it is vital to make drivers passing through Cregantonne more aware of the dangers that are posed by speeding. That is why I have reached out to break the road safety charity that started road safety week two decades ago in order to organise an anti-speeding campaign. In the constituency, next Thursday morning, my office and children from Cregantonne primary school will be involved. The idea is that the school pupils, staff and teachers can put on a parade. We can have banners instructing drivers that there is no need to speed, and to speed down saves lives, which we have heard are the official themes for this year's campaigns. Brake can also provide an affable mascot, Zac the Zebra, to help to reinforce the message that drivers ought to slow down and make the parade more colourful, hopefully. Taking action with a community-led campaign hopefully will bring much-needed awareness to drivers that are going too fast. It is a good reminder of how speeding and a result of not being able to break in time can put innocent people's lives in danger. I encourage others across Scotland to take anti-speeding campaigns into their own communities to draw attention to an area where speeding might already be a problem. Thanks to the free support, guidance and campaign materials provided by Brake, curbing the rates of speeding can have, hopefully, tangible results in our communities. Let's help the communities that we represent to take advantage of those resources so that, just as road safety week envisions, thousands of people across the country do take action on road safety, because the fact is that speed causes death and serious injuries on our roads. If thousands of people join in road safety week and bring awareness to thousands of friends, neighbours or strangers, I think how many lives could potentially be saved by that, just from drivers simply remembering to slow down. That is the kind of local action that motivates change. I look forward to doing my part and my small part, Patch of Edinburgh in the eastern part. I am sure that we will hear of many other successful actions just like this across the country this week. I begin by joining others and thanking Clare Adamson for bringing in today's debate on this very important topic to us today in the chamber. I fully support her motion. This is a problem that I understand very well from my time as the lead council on road safety in Argyll and Bute council, which, as a large rural area with hundreds of miles of roads suffers similar issues surrounding road safety, particularly with a large number of visitors visiting Argyll and Bute and several single track roads, which often are populated with highland cattle, sheep, deer and let alone sightseers taking that odd snap. It is important that we can change attitudes as to how people act on the roads, and it is welcome that Brake has been running the road safety week for 20 years now. In that time, the work of Brake and others has borne fruit, as our roads are now significantly safer than they were when Brake began the road safety week. In particular, I think that ensuring the message of road safety week reaches every part of our community is of vital importance, and I am pleased to see how some police forces in our areas have been offering safe driving advice in our areas recently. According to the list of participants on the website for road safety week, those who are getting involved in this week include nursery schools, youth clubs, army bases, community campaigners, employers, sports clubs, fire officers, police services, local authorities, paramedics and driving instructors among others. In particular, I believe that involving young people in the week is a brilliant move. Improving their understanding of how they can be safe on the road is vital by itself, but, in addition, they tend to be good advocates in encouraging adults to be safe on the roads as well. I know for well that when I get into a car, my son says that my dad built up, so I obviously am well aware of that. Anyone who has passed any one of the many primary schools that we have in our areas that have now got home-made signs put up because parents, teachers, associations and burn teachers councils have imploring adults to slow down can outside at least test to that too. The support that the break offers to those taking part in the week is to be commended from a look at their website in the road safety week. There is a lot of online stuff and physical resources available to those wanting to take part, such as a free action pack, ideas to help fund raise and much more. Tastistics show that, despite the great work of organisations like break and the advances that we have made on the road safety side of life, we still face serious issues. For example, in my west Scotland region in western Bartonshire, the number of people seriously injured in road collisions went up from in quarter one of 2016-17 to quarter one in 2017-18 by 120 per cent. Also in the west of Scotland in Renfrewshire, in 2016, the number of people who required medical treatment after an accident sat at 363. That is almost one for every day of the year. That is a massive number and one that we must seek to lower. Those two statistics highlight the need for on-going work on the road safety. That is probably a battle without an end point. As long as people are driving the need to educate the public on how they can stay safe on the roads, it will exist, and I imagine that so will the need for road safety week. Thank you very much. I will now ask the minister Hamza Yousaf to wind up the debate. Thanks to Clare Addison for putting forward this motion and to everybody who has contributed. Of course, it is a much-needed debate, because, as almost all of us have said, one death on our road is one too many. I have spoken before in the chamber about the first time as transport minister. I received a notification of a fatal accident on the trunk road network that transport ministers get whenever there, unfortunately, is one. It is a really powerful and impactful moment. I know that, from the Government—not just the transport minister, but every single one of us in Government—when there is a fatal accident on our trunk road network, or indeed on roads across Scotland, we do not take that lightly, as no member in the chamber does. Behind every statistic—I will go into some of those statistics, of course—is a human life. Each of you who have mentioned the fatality in your own constituency or region have touched on that. Unfortunately, the individual who loses life, the family, the friends, but there is a wider community that is impacted by that loss. It is not just the loss of life, of course, but life-altering injuries that can have that huge impact. We must never forget that although we will talk about statistics and that is needed and important in its own right behind each of those statistics, it is a human story. I am pleased to hear from members the local initiatives that are taking place in their own constituencies and regions. I will try to touch on that before doing so, perhaps. I will give a quick overview of the Scottish Government's own framework. People have touched on our road safety framework for 2020 to achieve safer roads. The framework sets out a vision of no fatalities in Scotland's roads. Although that remains an ambitious target, I clearly want to live in Scotland where that is achieved, as I imagine every single member in the chamber. Underpinning that vision is a challenging casualty reduction target, so I am pleased to see that the 2015 milestone remains on track to achieve it, with fatalities reducing by 42 per cent, which is compared to the 2014-2008 baseline. However, with 191 people killed on their roads in 2016, there simply cannot be any room for complacency, and there is more that we must do. The DFT recently released statistics that show that, in 2017, we are making progress in the right direction in reducing the number of fatalities in our roads now. That should be caveated, because we have not come to the end of 2017 in the winter season. Unfortunately, there is a higher number of casualty in our roads than in other seasons across Scotland. The work of the Scottish Government and partner centres on five framework pillars, the five EAs, is a known education, engineering, enforcement, encouragement and evaluation. I will touch on them, although I will briefly try to bring in some of the remarks from other members. Each of us has mentioned educational initiatives in our constituency that are either taking place or will be taking place. I quote here from the United Nations States, to be effective road safety education should be provided on a systematic and continuous basis in preschool establishments, primary and secondary schools without school activities and places of further education. The reason for that is obvious. Again, each member has touched on some good initiatives that have taken place, or indeed, in Ash Denham's case, that they will be taking place. We know that attitudes and behaviours are learned from an early age, and I am pleased to hear from Maurice Corry that his son is the first one to tell him to build up. That is great. I am sure that he has learnt that from his parents, and there is no doubt about that. Clearly, having that ingrained into our children at a young age can only be of good throughout their lives. Such campaigns have long-term benefits, but they also change present behaviours as well. We fund out a number and a range of initiatives. I will not really go into them because of brevity and time, but we are also keeping a close eye on local initiatives, many of which are impactful and powerful. Sometimes they are graphic but needed to be in order to get that message home. We are always looking to see where we can work with local authority partners. That is why it is so important for us to support brake road safety. We speed down and save lives and continue to remind drivers to adjust their speed, because we know that that is the single biggest factor. The next campaign that we will be working on in terms of road safety will be the festive drink driving campaign, which aims to keep people safe during the holiday period. In terms of enforcement, there were a couple of areas that I wanted to touch upon. I know that Mark Ruskell has the consultation responses back now. He has offered me a meeting to go over those consultation responses. I will take him up on that. I would like to hear quite a number of responses to his consultation. Overwhelmingly positive, I understand the intention of the bill and from a Scottish Government perspective. Let me reiterate what I said to Mark Ruskell the first time that we met on this, which is that the Government will keep it very open mind. We think that there are some practical issues that we would have to work around. I do not think that they are necessarily insurmountable, but let us have a conversation to see how that bill can progress. Of course, the Scottish Government and its guidelines are very encouraging to local authorities around 20mph speed limits, around build-up residential areas, around schools and so on and so forth. However, if we can and should go further, then let us explore that with Mark Ruskell and the work that he is doing. I also want to give a nod to Dave Stewart in terms of a graduated licensing scheme and let something that he has raised with the transport ministers before me and continues to raise and he and I are on the same page. Perhaps it is worth us having another conversation about how we might look to exert some helpful pressure on the UK Government in this regard. I would be happy to have that conversation with him again. I also applaud the leadership of the cross-party group in Clare. Adamson is the same, not just for bringing this forward, but for the work that she has done. She has particularly talked about her other passion. Anybody who knows Clare knows that she has a real passion for technology and digital technology. She mentioned that in road safety. From the Scottish Government perspective, we are always keen to trial technology and to see where it can have an impact and roll that out. Some of those examples would be in Shereiffhall Roundabout, where we used intelligent road studs to significantly reduce lane transgression and collision. Fairly, in our spring home, we have speed responsive traffic signals and reverse discrimination. If a car or in the case of spring home, usually an HDB is going too fast, the lights will go to red. On the A1, we have solar studs, which is now better to define junctions in the dark. On the A75, we have new vehicle activated signs that indicate the appropriate speed limit relating to the vehicle type. A lot of technology often helps to keep our roads safe. We will continue to roll that out where we can. The Scottish Government and our partners are committed to road safety. We are never ever complacent about that. I am absolutely resolute in my determination to save lives and meet the ultimate vision set out in the framework when no one is killed on Scotland's road. I am very proud of the work that we are doing here, but I agree with every single member in this chamber that more can be done, more should be done, and we will certainly work with our partners at local authority level to ensure that our roads are safe, not just for those who use them now but for future generations to come. Thank you very much, minister. I thank Claire Adamson and all the members who contributed, and that concludes the debate. I now close this meeting.