- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 14 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what directions and guidance it proposes to give to water authorities regarding tendering contracts for construction.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer I gave to question S1W-9400.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 14 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is on the bundling of contracts for water projects, what benefits this would have and what assessment has been made of the effect of bundling contracts on indigenous contractors.
Answer
In common with all public bodies the water authorities are charged with operating procurement procedures which deliver value for money. Broadly all goods and services should be acquired by competition - section 4.5 of the finance section of The Scottish Water Authorities: Management and Financial Memoranda sets out the policy in more detail. There are no specific references to the bundling of contracts, to which the general principles apply, and there are no plans to make specific provision. A copy of the document is available in the Scottish Parliamentary Information Centre.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive on the basis of what costings and timetabling public funding has been allocated to the City of Edinburgh Rapid Transit scheme.
Answer
The City of Edinburgh Council submitted its detailed bid for the City of Edinburgh Rapid Transit Scheme to the Transport Challenge Fund competition in June 1996. That bid contained estimated costs of and a projected timescale for development. The then Government gave the council permission to incur expenditure of up to £15 million under section 94 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, with this award timetabled as follows:
1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 |
£4 million | £6 million | £5 million |
At the council's request, the award was subsequently reprofiled to accommodate slippage caused by the parliamentary Order and the development of the Private Finance Initiative package. Further re-profiling of the award may be necessary.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the actual or estimated cost to Lothian and Borders Police of providing officers at Sheriff Courts within Lothian and Borders for safety and security has been on an annual basis since 1997.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The provision of officers at Sheriff Courts is an operational matter. It is therefore chief constables who decide on the level of resources to allocate.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has plans to conduct a survey of non-trunk roads similar to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions' National Road Maintenance Survey.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-9398.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when the last survey on non-trunk roads was carried out and whether it will publish it or place a copy in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has not carried out such a survey and has no plans to do so. A survey was carried out and the results published in August 1997 by the Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland. I understand that the Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland is currently carrying out a consultation exercise with local authorities to update the position on the condition of local roads.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive Scottish Executive what the estimated number is of major events or VIP or royal visits anticipated to the City of Edinburgh for the year from July 2000.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is responsible for only a small proportion of the major events and VIP and Royal visits to Edinburgh each year and is therefore not in a position to provide the information sought.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a regulator will be appointed to supervise the franchise or franchises following the tendering of Caledonian MacBrayne routes and, if so, who would appoint and fund the regulator and to whom the regulator would be accountable.
Answer
No decisions have yet been taken. The Executive has made representations to the European Commission in light of my statement to Parliament and is currently considering the way forward in relation to tendering the Calmac services, including the question of regulation, in the light of responses to the consultation document Delivering Lifeline Ferry Services. I will announce decisions in due course.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what fuel costs have been incurred by each water authority annually since 1997.
Answer
I have asked each authority to provide information on their fuel costs, and their responses are detailed below:
| West of Scotland Water Authority |
| | 1997-98 £ million | 1998-99 £ million | 1999-2000 £ million |
Electricity, Gas and other heating fuels | 6.60 | 7.03 | 6.48 |
| Other (mainly vehicle fuel) | 1.75 | 1.97 | 2.38 |
Total | 8.35 | 9.00 | 8.86 |
| East of Scotland Water Authority |
| | 1997-98 £ million | 1998-99 £ million | 1999-2000 £ million |
Electricity, Gas and other heating fuels | 6.91 | 6.68 | 7.08 |
| Other (mainly vehicle fuel) ** | 1.40 | 1.40 | 1.40 |
Total | 8.31 | 8.08 | 8.48 |
** EOSWA Vehicle fuel : Best available estimate - figures not held centrally
| North of Scotland Water Authority |
| | 1997-98 £ million | 1998-99 £ million | 1999-2000 £ million |
Electricity, Gas and other heating fuels | 5.05 | 5.01 | 4.86 |
| Other (mainly vehicle fuel) | 1.30 | 1.47 | 1.74 |
Total | 6.35 | 6.48 | 6.60 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what are the fuel costs, broken down by mode of transport, for CalMac on an annual basis since 1997.
Answer
This is a matter for Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd. The information requested is not held centrally.
