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Duty of Disclosure Legislation

Edinburgh Tram Inquiry · Edinburgh Tram Inquiry Report · Issued 19 September 2023 · Addressed to: Scottish Government

Government responseScottish Government: Under consideration (Nov 2023)

DeliveryNo statement from Scottish Government found

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation, Chapter 25 Recommendation 24 (paragraph 25.236)

The Scottish Ministers should also give consideration to the need for legislation to impose a similar duty of disclosure to that owed by policyholders to their insurers upon a company, its directors, employees or consultants and upon a local authority and its officials towards representatives of OGC or of Audit Scotland undertaking any review of a publicly funded project. Any such legislation should determine the appropriate civil and/or criminal sanctions to be imposed for breach of the duty of disclosure.

Edinburgh Tram Inquiry, Edinburgh Tram Inquiry Report · 19 Sep 2023 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

AI-generated evidence summary

Speaking to the Scottish Parliament in November 2023, Màiri McAllan, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero and Just Transition, stated that ministers would continue to "very carefully consider each of the recommendations", noting where action had already been taken or reflected best practice and identifying where further steps could be taken (Màiri McAllan response, Nov 2023). The record holds no update since the Scottish Government's response of November 2023 (Màiri McAllan response, Nov 2023).

Sources

AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026.

Government response

●Scottish Government · Under consideration · 2 Nov 2023

Words of: Màiri McAllan, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero and Just Transition, statement to the Scottish Parliament, 2 November 2023 (text as published by the Scottish Government)

Presiding Officer, I emphasise that we will continue to very carefully consider each of the recommendations, noting where action has already been taken or has always been best practice as well as crucially where we can go further.

Response document: Edinburgh Tram Inquiry Report: Transport Secretary statement

Site note: This sentence is about every recommendation. The statement says four recommendations relate to the provision of evidence and potential sanctions for providing misleading evidence, and does not answer them one by one. The Cabinet Secretary answered on recommendations 22 and 23 in the chamber the same day; no published answer addresses recommendation 24 alone.

Delivery

No statement on delivery from Scottish Government has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.

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