- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 5 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total number of passengers carried on the Caledonian MacBrayne network was in each of the last five years.
Answer
The number of passengers Caledonian MacBrayne has carried over the last five financial years is set out in the following table:
| Financial Year | No. of Passengers |
| 2000-01 | 4,790,000 |
| 2001-02 | 4,850,000 |
| 2002-03 | 4,884,000 |
| 2003-04 | 5,214,000 |
| 2004-05 | 5,358,000 |
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 5 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the implications for the tendering of Northern Isles ferry routes will be of the European Commission's Decision of 15 July 2005 on state aid.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-18445 on 5 September 2005. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 5 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the European Commission's Decision of 15 July 2005 on state aid means that there is no obligation on ministers to put out to tender island ferry routes that carry less than 300,000 passengers per year.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-18445 on 5 September 2005. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 5 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to upgrade the M80/A80 to motorway standard throughout.
Answer
Draft statutory orders to upgrade to motorway the remaining section of the A80 between Stepps and Haggs have been published. They have attracted a number ofobjections and a Public Local Inquiry has been arranged and will commence on 3 October 2005. If the outcome is favourable for the scheme, I expect construction to start in 2007.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 12 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16673 by Nicol Stephen on 3 June 2005 and following the decision on Dumfries and Galloway, whether it will allow any other local authorities to form unitary regional transport partnerships.
Answer
The Executive’s proposalsfor the boundaries of the future regional transport partnerships were set outin a draft order sent to the Local Government and Transport Committee on 5 April 2005. Inline with the Committee’s stage 1 report on the Transport (Scotland)Bill 2004, the only single-authority partnership foreseen by the draft orderwould cover the territory of Dumfries and Galloway Council.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the full minutes of the meetings held between the Minister for Transport and the European Commission with regard to the tendering for the Western Isles ferry services.
Answer
Discussions between memberstates and the Commission are private and inform internal discussion andadvice. The minutes of such meetings are not normally made public and are exemptfrom disclosure under section 32(1)(a)(ii) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland)Act 2002.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the legal advice it has received with regard to the tendering for the Western Isles ferry services.
Answer
The Executive does notnormally disclose legal advice which it receives.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 23 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16672 by Nicol Stephen on 3 June 2005, what exact role it envisages for Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT), as distinct from that planned for the proposed West of Scotland Regional Transport Partnership, in light of the commitment made to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport on 16 June 2004 thatI still expect SPT to have a direct role in the management and development of rail services in the west of Scotland. (Official Report c. 9099).
Answer
The role envisaged forStrathclyde Passenger Transport is the same as that proposed for the West ofScotland Regional Transport Partnership.I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-15923 on 5 May 2005. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures are in place to progress the designation to shellfish standard of the north-east shoreline from Dundee to Aberdeen.
Answer
The area of the north east shorelinefrom Dundee to Aberdeen currently has no designations under either of the ShellfishDirectives. Designations under the Shellfish Waters Directive (79/923/EEC) aremade by the Scottish Executive, based upon production data collected by Fisheries ResearchServices to show that there is sustainable shellfish production which requires protection.No data has been forthcoming from this area to support such a designation. The ShellfishHygiene Directive (91/492/EEC) is administered by the Food Standards Agency (Scotland). Designationsare made on the basis of application by shellfish producers to the FSA(S). FSA(S)inform me that no such applications have been made in this area.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines are laid down for the treatment of raw sewage by public bodies.
Answer
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) are the regulatory authority for such discharges, using powers granted primarily through the Control of Pollution Act 1974. For larger sewage treatment works, the level of treatment that sewage must receive is set out in the Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Regulations 1994.
