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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S2W-18098

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 11 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the highest price paid for a hotel room used by Executive officials visiting Brussels has been since 1997.

Question reference: S2W-18097

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 11 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost of a hotel room used by Executive officials visiting Brussels was in 2004-05.

The information is not heldby the Scottish Executive in the format requested. Scottish Executive officialsstaying overnight in Brussels are set a single financial limit to cover bed,breakfast and all meals in a 24 hour period. In the period from April 2004 to31 December 2004 the allowance for Scottish Executive officials visitingBrussels on official business was 226 euros (£155.96) and from 1 January 2005to date, 211 euros (£145.61). From 1 June 2004all claims submitted are paid on production of the appropriate receipts.

Question reference: S2W-18096

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive which 20 roads have had the highest number of (a) accidents and (b) fatalities in each of the last five years.

Data about injury road accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the Stats 19 statistical report form. These returns cover only road accidents in which one or more people were injured; they do not cover damage only accidents. The data include the road class and number, if any. Figures for the numbers of accidents on individual roads can only be produced from the central statistical database in cases where the roads are of class M, A(M), A and B.

The following tables provide the statistics requested. They are based upon data which were collected by the police at the time of the accident and subsequently reported to the Executive. They may differ from any figures which the relevant local authorities would provide now, because they do not take account of any subsequent changes or corrections that local authorities may have made to the statistical information, for use at a local level, about the location of each accident, based upon their knowledge of the roads and areas concerned.

Each sub-table lists only twenty roads. In some cases, other roads may have the same numbers of injury road accidents, or fatalities, as the last road shown in a particular sub-table. For example, the A68 was not the only road which had 3 fatalities in 2000.

In the case of roads, such as the A1, which cross the border, the figures relate only to accidents which occurred in Scotland.

2000
Injury road accidents		Fatalities
Road	Number of injury road accidents	Road	Number of road accident fatalities
A8	354	A9	15
A82	244	A90	10
A90	231	A82	9
M8	228	A96	9
A9	202	M8	9
A77	168	A85	8
A71	163	A1	7
A814	148	A83	7
A89	141	M74	7
A92	135	A702	5
A7	132	A71	5
A96	120	A8	5
A70	105	A93	5
A1	103	A76	4
A761	103	A77	4
A725	102	A89	4
A702	101	A92	4
A78	96	A95	4
A85	95	B701	4
A803	91	A68	3

2001
Injury road accidents		Fatalities
Road	Number of injury road accidents	Road	Number of road accident fatalities
A8	327	A9	21
A90	259	A90	18
M8	246	A85	8
A82	233	A92	8
A9	196	A77	7
A77	178	A82	7
A71	153	A701	6
A7	140	A71	5
A89	127	A78	5
A814	119	A8	5
A92	113	A83	5
A96	107	A91	5
A70	105	A70	4
A1	104	A811	4
A761	92	B9152	4
A726	90	M8	4
A85	90	A1	3
A702	89	A709	3
A725	88	A713	3
A78	87	A75	3

2002
Injury road accidents		Fatalities
Road	Number of injury road accidents	Road	Number of road accident fatalities
A8	341	A82	12
A90	243	A77	10
M8	242	A90	10
A9	219	A9	9
A82	208	A75	8
A77	176	A1	7
A92	149	A8	7
A7	140	A74	6
A814	139	A96	6
A71	130	A814	5
A1	112	A947	5
A803	105	A977	5
A96	104	M74	5
A761	99	A823	4
A89	97	M90	4
A81	93	A719	3
A85	92	A72	3
A70	87	A832	3
A73	87	A91	3
A78	87	A93	3

2003
Injury road accidents		Fatalities
Road	Number of injury road accidents	Road	Number of road accident fatalities
A8	310	A9	20
A90	256	A90	13
A82	231	A77	12
A9	227	A96	11
M8	202	A72	7
A77	174	A82	7
A92	159	A770	5
A71	149	A85	5
A814	130	A92	5
A7	127	B7078	5
A89	124	A71	4
A1	120	A713	4
A726	101	A8	4
A96	100	A93	4
A78	91	A701	3
A702	90	A726	3
A85	88	A74	3
A70	83	A75	3
A91	83	A78	3
A761	82	A811	3

2004
Injury road accidents		Fatalities
Road	Number of injury road accidents	Road	Number of road accident fatalities
A8	305	A9	17
A90	269	A90	13
M8	247	A77	12
A82	217	A82	7
A9	209	A85	7
A71	176	A92	7
A77	138	A96	7
A7	129	A91	5
A92	121	A70	4
A96	120	A71	4
A814	110	M74	4
A85	105	A701	3
A89	103	A702	3
A726	94	A72	3
A702	93	A8	3
A1	90	A83	3
A78	90	A859	3
A91	89	A87	3
A70	88	A916	3
A761	88	A93	3

Question reference: S2W-18095

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many road deaths, other than those on motorways or trunk roads, have occurred in each year since 1997, broken down by local authority area.

The information requested ispublished annually in Road Accidents Scotland, copies of which areavailable in the Parliament’s Reference Centre. The figures for each year from1999 to 2003 (inclusive) are given in Table 36 of Road Accidents Scotland2003 (Bib. number 34523). The figures for 1997 and 1998 can be found inTable 36 of Road Accidents Scotland 2001 (Bib. number 25584). Thecorresponding figures for 2004 are not yet available, but will be publishedlater this year.

Question reference: S2W-17865

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by John Scott on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many electric fans have been (a) requested by and (b) distributed to parliamentary and MSPs’ staff in the last 12 months.

Question reference: S2W-17869

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by John Scott on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how much has been spent on maintaining the landscaped areas of the Scottish Parliament complex.

Question reference: S2W-17868

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by John Scott on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the monthly cost is of cleaning all the windows of the Scottish Parliament building.

Question reference: S2W-17866

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by John Scott on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body in which part of the Scottish Parliament building air-conditioning is used.

Question reference: S2W-17862

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by John Scott on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the average temperature has been in the (a) Scottish Parliament building, (b) MSP block and (c) media tower in each of the last 12 months.

(a) It is not currently possible to determine the average temperature for the whole building based on the information logged to date for individual areas.

(b) The average temperature recorded in a representative number of MSP rooms over the last year is 22.3 degrees Celsius.

(c)The average temperature recorded in a sample of rooms in the press tower since 23 Oct 04 to 3 Aug 05 is 21.67 degrees Celsius.

Question reference: S2W-17863

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by John Scott on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the highest temperature recorded in a (a) MSP’s and (b) media tower office has been in the last 12 months.