A People’s ScotRail (Amendment 1)
S6M-03044.1: As an amendment to motion S6M-03044 in the name of Neil Bibby (A People’s ScotRail), leave out from “welcomes” to end and insert “hopes that the return of ScotRail to the public sector will be a success; calls on the Scottish Government to set out a business and investment plan before the summer; believes that this should remove the threat of service cuts, and set out a route to lower fares and a simpler ticketing system, as well as an apprenticeship scheme; further calls on the Scottish Government to restore its damaged relationship with the rail unions, and calls for ScotRail to bring an end to the emergency timetable and return to normal services.”

Original motion(S6M-03044):
That the Parliament welcomes the return of ScotRail to the public sector; considers the new public sector operator to be critical in securing modal shift and affordable, accessible and reliable rail services for Scotland’s passengers; condemns, therefore, the current plans for ticket office cuts and closures, service reductions, and the recent 3.8% increase in fares, which undermine progress towards net zero, modal shift and service improvement; considers that the new ScotRail, which will be under public ownership, must provide well-staffed, world-class services, and calls on the Scottish Government to rule out compulsory redundancies or any dilution of collective bargaining under the new operator, and further calls on the Scottish Government to reject tickets office cuts and closures and set out a timetable for restoring overall ScotRail services to pre-pandemic levels.