A row between Holyrood and Westminster which has thrown a funding plan for the new Forth Bridge into disarray is likely to be debated by MSPs next week, Scottish Parliament bosses confirmed today.

Subject to approval by MSPs, the issue will be discussed next Thursday afternoon.

It comes after a row between the Treasury and the Scottish Government over how the proposed crossing - expected to cost between £1.7 billion and £2.34 billion - will be paid for.

SNP ministers want the Treasury to bring forward money due to the Holyrood administration over a 20-year period.

But Chancellor Alistair Darling ruled that out, prompting First Minister Alex Salmond to insist he will not "take no for an answer".

The Scottish Government wants talks with the Treasury in an attempt to resolve the row.

Mr Darling has already said the SNP administration "ought to have been aware" the Treasury would not agree to its request for the cash advance.

Speaking at the weekend the Chancellor said: "That particular scheme, where basically they were asking to borrow money from budgets that had yet to be allocated over an extremely long period, that's something that we just don't do. I think they ought to have been aware of that."

Today Labour called for Holyrood to stage an emergency debate on how the proposed bridge will be funded, with Andy Kerr accusing finance secretary John Swinney of being "guilty of incompetence on a monumental scale".

The Labour finance spokesman demanded: "He should come before Parliament and account for himself.

"The new Forth Bridge is Scotland's biggest construction project in a generation and the SNP are making a mess of it.

"For the Scottish Government to make such a major announcement with no funding agreed was outrageous."

An aide to Mr Swinney said the Government will be delighted to debate its "robust and common sense proposals" on how to pay for the bridge.

"We will be equally delighted to expose Labour's disastrous and ill-informed position on the Forth Bridge.

"Despite the fact that chief secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper admits that PFI 'would not solve the budgeting problem if the scheme was classified as public spending' under the new international accounting rules, which bring everything on to the balance sheet. Labour want to build a privatised PFI bridge."

He added: "The SNP government have made it clear that we will build a new Forth crossing by 2016 and it will be built in the public sector - with no tolls.

"That is what the people of Scotland need and want - and the Scottish Government will also fight for a fair funding deal from the Treasury."

The Tories offered to hold talks with the SNP Government about the funding row but also accused the First Minister of creating an "arctic waste" in relations with Westminster to suit his political ends.

Speaking at an event in Edinburgh today shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling called for dialogue between the two regimes.

He said: "My impression from what has happened in the last few weeks is that there has been very little discussion - sensible grown up behind-the-scenes discussion - between the Scottish Government here in Edinburgh and the Labour government in London.

"There's been needling of each other, announcements made without talking to each other and you've got a fundamental gulf between the two."

He added: "We cannot have the arctic waste that Alex Salmond has created between the Government in Scotland and the Government in Westminster - an environmental situation which happens to suit his political agenda."