John Swinney will face First Minister’s Questions after a failed attempt to force the health secretary to resign and a damning report into reducing car use.
A Scottish Conservative-proposed vote calling Neil Gray to resign failed at Holyrood on Wednesday.
The party tabled an amendment to a motion proposed by Scottish Labour on the NHS workforce, in order to heap more pressure on Gray.
The health secretary has been battling with winter pressures, poor performance in the NHS in recent months and criticism over taking Government-owned cars to football games, but has retained the confidence of the First Minister.
The amendment fell by 51 votes to 68 with one abstention, while the original motion was defeated by 61 votes to 53 with seven abstentions.
Meanwhile, the Scottish Government has been found to have made minimal progress in meeting its climate change target of reducing all car use by 2030.
Audit Scotland and the Accounts Commission said the target is unlikely to be met and that there has been a lack of leadership and no clear plan for meeting the “ambitious and challenging” target.
The assessment comes despite Swinney’s assurance last year that the 2030 target for reducing Scotland’s car kilometres by 20% can still be met.
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