- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 18 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the purpose was of any financial assistance that it, or its agencies, provided to Stoneywood Mill pre-2022.
Answer
Arjowiggins has in the past received SE loans totalling £12m, equity investment of £100,000 and grant funding totalling £163,400.
Breakdown of funding:
£ 12m loans and £100,000 equity* :
- £7m loan/equity in July 2019 to support the management buy-out of the company (comprised of £6.9m loan and £100,000 equity investment)
- £3.5m loan in July 2020 as gap funding required due to Covid-19 impacts
- £1.6m loan in January 2022 to help the company mitigate numerous cost pressures (material costs, energy costs and Covid-19 impacts)
- *PLUS £4,000.091 accrued interest to date (as of September 2022)
- £163,400 in grants (all conditions met so not eligible for claw-back):
- £125,000 environmental aid for predevelopment work on Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant replacement projects
- £16,000 towards an energy efficiency audit
- £5,000 Financial Readiness grant (pre MBO) to help fund financial projections and investment appraisals for a combined heat and power energy plant on the site.
- £14,808 Workplace Innovation grant (pre MBO) to assist the company with the introduction of a management development programme following a senior management team restructure.
- £2,592 consultancy support (pre-MBO) to explore succession options and explore the feasibility of employee ownership
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 16 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on the level of any financial assistance requested by any potential buyer of Stoneywood Mill, Aberdeen, which could have prevented the closure of the mill.
Answer
The Scottish Government holds no information on the level of any financial assistance requested by any potential buyer.
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 16 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it was asked to provide financial assistance to any potential buyer of Stoneywood Mill, Aberdeen, and arrived at the decision not to provide any such assistance.
Answer
The Scottish Government has received no request for financial assistance.
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 16 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it was recently approached by Scottish Enterprise to assist any potential buyer in the purchase of Stoneywood Mill, Aberdeen.
Answer
No request for financial assistance has been made to the Scottish Government. In the normal course of business, Scottish Enterprise has provided information about its services to both an interested party and the Administrators.
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 16 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it expects Scottish Enterprise to recoup any of the cost of the financial assistance that the body reportedly provided to Stoneywood Mill, Aberdeen, pre-2022.
Answer
This would be an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise and is subject to the formal administration process.
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 16 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what guarantees were associated with the reported financial assistance provided to Stoneywood Mill, Aberdeen, by Scottish Enterprise pre-2022.
Answer
No Scottish Government guarantees were in place.
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 16 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it was recently approached by any potential buyer of Stoneywood Mill, Aberdeen, for financial assistance.
Answer
A potential buyer did contact Scottish Government but this did not include any request for financial assistance.
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2022
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 2 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support is available in the context of its Covid Recovery Strategy to help high streets recover from the pandemic and ensure that there are no long-term scarring effects.
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 24 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on safety improvements at the A90 Toll of Birness junction since 1 April 2017.
Answer
The sum of £67,232 has been spent on safety improvements on the A90 Toll of Birness junction since 1 April 2017. This cost was primarily associated with the provision of three vehicle activated signs (VAS) recommended from previous safety studies. Two signs were erected in 2017 with a third sign to supplement the northbound VAS erected in 2021. Other work involved an additional northbound advance direction sign.
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 24 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) injury and (b) non-injury road accidents on the A90 have been reported in each quarter since 1 April 2017 between Ellon and (i) Peterhead and (ii) Fraserburgh.
Answer
Between Ellon (from & including the roundabout at the junction with the A948) to the junction with the A982 at Peterhead
Year – 2017 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
April – June | 1 |
July – September | 0 |
October – December | 1 |
Year – 2018 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
January - March | 2 |
April – June | 4 |
July – September | 4 |
October – December | 1 |
Year – 2019 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
January - March | 1 |
April – June | 1 |
July – September | 2 |
October – December | 1 |
Year – 2020 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
January - March | 2 |
April – June | 0 |
July – September | 0 |
October – December | 1 |
Year – 2021 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
January - March | 2 |
April – June | 2 |
July – September | 1 |
October – December | 0 |
Year – 2022 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
January - March | 0 |
April – June | 0 |
July – September (to 9 Sept) | 1 |
Between Ellon (from & including the roundabout at the junction with the A948) to the junction with the A98 at Fraserburgh.
Please note that the following figures also include the above figures as the section from Ellon to Fraserburgh includes the length of the A90 from Ellon to Peterhead.
Year – 2017 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
April – June | 7 |
July – September | 1 |
October – December | 1 |
Year – 2018 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
January - March | 5 |
April – June | 4 |
July – September | 5 |
October – December | 4 |
Year – 2019 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
January - March | 3 |
April – June | 3 |
July – September | 3 |
October – December | 1 |
Year – 2020 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
January - March | 4 |
April – June | 0 |
July – September | 3 |
October – December | 4 |
Year – 2021 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
January - March | 4 |
April – June | 2 |
July – September | 2 |
October – December | 1 |
Year – 2022 | Number of Personal Injury Accidents |
January - March | 0 |
April – June | 0 |
July – September (to 9 Sept) | 1 |
Transport Scotland only holds accident information which is provided to us by Police Scotland. Please note that the information provided is based on the current figures available at the time of retrieving the data from Transport Scotland’s accident manager system. The following are potential reasons for an accident not appearing on our system:
• Transport Scotland only holds accident information which is provided to us by Police Scotland.
• Transport Scotland does not hold information relating to damage only accidents (i.e. not involving an injury).
• Transport Scotland only holds accident information for the trunk road network.
• The accident information Transport Scotland holds is subject to change. E.g. we receive late returns from Police Scotland, who are responsible for recording details of injury accidents.
• Annual Scottish accident figures are published by Transport Scotland on a yearly basis and can be found by entering Reported Road Casualties Scotland into your search engine.
• From summer 2019, Police Scotland introduced a new system for recording traffic collisions. Due to improved recording and categorisation processes, it is expected that there will be an increase in the number of casualties and accidents on Scottish roads that are classified as serious. The evidence from other police forces within the UK that introduced the same system is that this increase will be around 20%. This increase would not reflect an actual change in the severity of accidents occurring on Scottish roads, but would instead reflect more accurate recording.
• Statisticians within the Department for Transport have devised a method for adjusting the road casualty figures to ensure that they can be compared over time on a consistent basis. Transport Scotland’s Key Reported Road Casualties and Reported Road Casualties statistics publications will present both adjusted and unadjusted figures.
