- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any assessment of the annual cost to the Scottish economy caused by traffic delays as a result of the collection of tolls on the (a) Forth Road Bridge and (b) Tay Road Bridge.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the employment costs of the collection of tolls on the (a) Forth Road Bridge and (b) Tay Road Bridge were in each year since 1999.
Answer
These are matters for theForth Estuary Transport Authority and the Tay Road Bridge Joint Boardrespectively, as they own and operate these bridges.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects that the capital costs of constructing the Tay Road Bridge will be recouped by the revenue from tolls on the bridge.
Answer
This is a matter for the TayRoad Bridge Joint Board which owns and operates the bridge.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive in whom the ownership of opencast coal is vested; what royalty is paid to its owner by those exploiting it, and how it will ensure the reinvestment of these royalties back into communities affected by opencast mining operations.
Answer
This is a reserved matter.However the freehold ownership of virtually all unworked coal is vestedthroughout the UK in the Coal Authority, a non departmental publicbody which was established upon privatisation of the British Coal Corporationin 1994. Royalties, or production related rents, payable to the Authority bythe operators licensed to extract that coal varies between sites. There is noprovision in the relevant legislation which would allow the authority tohypothecate production related rent receipts for investing in miningcommunities. However, further information can be obtained from the authority atthe following address: 200 Lichfield lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18,4RG.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what communication it has had with Her Majesty’s Government on the Executive’s position that no new nuclear power stations should be built in Scotland until issues relating to the waste management of such facilities have been resolved.
Answer
There have been no discussionsbetween the Executive and the UK Government on the subject of new nuclear stationsin Scotland. The Scottish Executive is, however, engaged in discussionswith DTI on issues raised in the UK Energy Review and DTI are aware of ScottishExecutive policy. In this regard, the Scottish Executive is unaware of any proposalto build a new nuclear power station anywhere in Scotland.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Her Majesty’s Government about the possibility of securing increased expenditure in Scotland of revenue created by North Sea oil.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-23933 on 14 March 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many instances of wilful fire raising there have been at each prison in each of the last seven years.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Our information relates to “Arson”.I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-23890 on 16 March 2006. All answersto written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, thesearch facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when the capital costs of constructing the Forth Road Bridge were recouped by the revenue from tolls on the bridge.
Answer
Tolling income at the Forth RoadBridge repaid construction costs in 1993.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many breaches of discipline by prisoners there have been in each prison in each year since 1999, broken down by category of breach of discipline, and expressed as a percentage of the total population in each prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
The available information onbreaches of discipline by prison establishment in financial years 1999-2000 to2004-05 has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib.number 39090).
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how far it has met its commitments as set out in Closing the Opportunity Gap: Scottish Budget 2003-06.
Answer
The Executive last publishedits progress against the 2002 Spending Review targets, including the sub-set containedwithin
Closing the Opportunity Gap: Scottish Budget 2003-06, in the Annual Evaluation Report (AER) 2005-06, whichwas published in March 2004. Since then a formal agreement has been reached withthe Finance Committee (June 2005) that an AER would not be published in 2005 or2006.
We intend to publish a furtherprogress report on these targets in autumn 2006, following the conclusion of the2002 Spending Review period (end March 2006), allowing the Executive time to collateand evaluate the information relating to those targets whose timeframes concludein March 2006.
