Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 30 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what recent estimate it has made of any effect inflation will have on the cost of the Ardrossan harbour re-development project, should work start in early 2023.
We are aware from other infrastructure projects that construction costs have been impacted by increases in inflation, as well as a rise in materials, fuel and wages as a result of the pandemic, exit from the European Union and the situation in Ukraine. The full impacts will not be known until the tender bid and evaluation stage for the Ardrossan project has been undertaken.