Question reference: S1W-00664
- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 22 July 1999
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Current status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 20 August 1999
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive to outline actual and planned public expenditure, other than by local government, on transport in Scotland for each financial year from 1995/1996 to 2001/2002, in both current and inflated-indexed prices, and to detail separately the expenditure on (a) road construction and improvement, (b) road management, (c) repair and maintenance and (d) support for transport, including Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL), CalMac and Scotrail.
Answer
The information requested is shown in the table. The outturn and planned expenditure have been extracted from the Scottish Office Report "Serving Scotland's Needs", a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Information Centre.
1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | |
£m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | |
Outturn | Outturn | Outturn | Estimated Outturn | Plans | Plans | Plans | |
| Motorway and Trunk Road Construction & Improvement Note 1 | 142 | 120 | 91 | 58 | 23 | 14 | 17 |
(Indexed Prices) Note 2 | 158 | 129 | 96 | 59 | 23 | 14 | 16 |
| Motorway and Trunk Road Repair & MaintenanceNotes 1&3 | 84 | 83 | 80 | 98 | 140 | 161 | 169 |
(Indexed Prices) | 93 | 89 | 84 | 100 | 140 | 157 | 161 |
Other Transport Programmes Note 4 | 45 | 44 | 46 | 64 | 65 | 65 | 65 |
(Indexed Prices) | 50 | 47 | 48 | 66 | 65 | 63 | 62 |
HIAL | 11 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 13 |
(Indexed Prices) | 12 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 12 |
CalMac | 15 | 14 | 20 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 16 |
(Indexed Prices) | 17 | 15 | 21 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 15 |
SPTE Note 5 | - | 71 | 102 | 94 | 88 | 78 | 71 |
(Indexed Prices) | - | 76 | 107 | 96 | 88 | 76 | 68 |
Scotrail Note 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 107 | 100 |
(Indexed Prices) | - | - | - | - | - | 104 | 95 |
Notes
1. Disaggregated figures are not available for road management costs. These cover a range of activities such as traffic calming and management, and consultants fees. The costs are included in these figures.
2. The Indexed prices are based on the GDP deflators at 22 March 1999, the latest available.
3. PFI payments in respect of the M6 DBFO are included from 1998-99 onwards.
4. Expenditure on "Other Transport Programmes" includes Freight Facilities, Grants to Shipping services, Rural Transport Measures, Bus Fuel Duty Rebate, Road Safety Measures, Loganair Subsidy and grants for Piers and Harbours including CalMac piers..
5. Figures for 1995/96 are not available as payments were made by DETR.6. Figures for 1995/96 to1999-00 are not available as payments were made by DETR. From 2000-01 payments will be made by the Scottish Executive.