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Information on the infrastructure investment projects which Scottish Futures Trust is supporting is available on its website: www.scottishfuturestrust.org.uk/

Information relating to the estimated annual unitary payment charges paid by public sector bodies in Scotland to private sector consortiums for services agreed over the length of non-profit distributing, hub and public-private partnership/private finance initiative contracts is available by way of the Scottish Government website: www.gov.scot/Topics/Government/Finance/18232/12308

No changes have been made following financial close. Some limited contractual adjustments were made prior to financial close to address Scottish Government and Scottish Futures Trust’s understanding of the revised guidance in Eurostat’s recently updated Manual of Government Deficit and Debt.

The eight projects listed on 2 February 2015 (S4W-24246) were those projects due to reach financial close in the financial year 2014-15.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Scottish Futures Trust is leading work on the creation of a new charity that will form part of the structure of future hub infrastructure projects, seeking advice when required including ongoing engagement with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator with which it met on 16 July 2015.

The board of the hub design-build-finance-maintain project companies has always been privately controlled with strong public sector representation. The revised structure seeks to reinforce that position under the new Eurostat guidance.

Shareholders will have the right to invest subordinated debt in the same ratio as their shareholding.

Any cost to projects of delay associated with changes to Eurostat guidance has yet to be agreed. To date the Scottish Government has allocated a total of £4.5 million of capital funding through the Scottish Futures Trust to the six local authorities with the most imminent projects to enable them to continue to progress their projects.

Sixty six claims were intimated, including court actions raised, in respect of former residents of Kerelaw Residential School. Glasgow City Council paid out settlement in 30 of the cases which amounted to £223,826.95 including court expenses.

All consultations and published responses can be found on the Scottish Government website via the following link: http://www.gov.scot/Publications/.