- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 16 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned into the potential impact of road charging and workplace parking charges on the pattern of land use in and around Scotland's towns and cities.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is preparing a research programme in association with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the key Scottish local authorities. This research will include the potential impact on land use in urban areas.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 16 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned into the potential impact of road charging on the rate of traffic accidents and the number of resultant injuries and fatalities.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is preparing a research programme in association with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the key Scottish local authorities. This research will include road safety.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 16 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned into the potential economic impact of road charging and workplace parking charges on Scotland's towns and cities.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is preparing a research programme in association with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the key Scottish local authorities. This research will include the potential economic impact on Scotland's towns and cities.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 15 November 1999
To ask the Presiding Officer what steps have been taken towards the Parliament developing links such as "twinning" with other emerging nations, especially those in the developing world.
Answer
No specific steps have been taken by the Parliament to develop "twinning" or other links with emerging nations. I understand that the Procedures Committee will be considering how matters relating to Parliamentary liaison should be handled within the Parliament, with a view to identifying an appropriate mechanism. I am therefore passing your question to the Procedures Committee so that they may take it into account in their deliberations.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 26 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the Scottish workforce travels to work by private car, broken down by travel to work area.
Answer
Scottish Household Survey results show that, for Scotland as a whole, in the first half of this year, a car or a van was the usual main method of travel to work for about 65% of the people surveyed who travelled to a place of work. Information for individual travel to work areas is not available.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 26 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will lodge in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre details of the technical specification of the equipment to be used in the M8 pilot project on road charging.
Answer
The invitation to tender, when issued, will specify the Department's requirements in this research. It will be for the tenderers to provide, test and modify equipment to meet the requirements. A key output of the research is a suite of technical specifications for road user charging systems for use in a wide variety of traffic and road conditions.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 20 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what its target is for reduction in the number of hours lost by drivers and passengers of private cars because of congestion.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no plans at present to set such a target.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 20 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what its target is for reduction in the number of hours lost by passengers on public transport because of congestion.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no plans at present to set such a target.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 20 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what the distribution is by time and travel to work area of hours lost by passengers on public transport because of congestion in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hours drivers and passengers on Scotland's roads lost because of congestion in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.