An SNP motion on school transport from North Lanarkshire Council’s SNP group went unopposed at a recent meeting.

The motion, which called for a new working group to be set up in order to review and update policies on school transport, means that revisions can now be made before changes are made to provision for primary school pupils in the next school year.

It was presented to council by SNP group leader Tracy Carragher (Coatbridge South) who added that her group would be true to their election manifesto commitments and that when the financial opportunity arises they will reverse the council’s previous decision to reduce the number of pupils who qualified for school transport.

However she added that it was not possible to immediately reverse the decision, made when the council set its budget, and that as this decision was made by the full council any reversal would also have to be made by the full council and only when full financial details had been worked out.

Council leader Jim Logue (Labour, Airdrie Central) described Councillor Carragher’s comments as “very measured” and withdrew the amendment he had been about to submit.

The motion was therefore carried without need for debate or a vote.