- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether an operator of last resort has been identified for the main bundle of Clyde and Hebridean ferry services.
Answer
I will be announcing thefinal service specification for the Clyde and Hebrides ferry service shortly. This will detail thecontractual arrangements that will apply for the duration of the contract.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the tendering of the main bundle of Clyde and Hebridean ferry services on the basis of Public Service Contracts would enable private ferry companies to operate on some or all of the individual routes alongside the tendered services.
Answer
Neither a Public Service Obligation(PSO) nor a Public Service Contract (PSC), which is the Executive’s chosenmethod of procuring the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services, offers exclusiverights to ferry operators.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the tendering of the main bundle of Clyde and Hebridean ferry services on the basis of Public Service Obligations would enable private ferry companies to operate on some or all of the individual routes alongside the tendered services.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-27292 answered on 8 August 2006.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, 10 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority paid to Scottish Water and its predecessor bodies as a result of unpaid water bills in each year from 1993-94 to 2005-06 and what funds were used for this purpose.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for home energy efficiency grants are outstanding and what sums are involved.
Answer
There are currently nooutstanding applications under the household stream of the Scottish Communityand Householder Renewables Initiative other than those received within the lastfour weeks.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 29 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all its departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies bulk buy energy on a Scotland-wide basis and, if not, what efficiency schemes are in place to reduce the costs of energy purchase.
Answer
The Scottish Executive bulk buysenergy for some, but not all, of its agencies, non-departmental public bodies andassociated departments. The current collaborative contract covers 35 parts of thepublic sector and almost 900 sites across Scotland.
In terms of energy efficiency,I refer to the measures outlined in the answer to question S2W-26265 on 29 June 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon 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: Thursday, 08 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 29 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total mileage of the ministerial car fleet was in each of the last five years, broken down into cars using petrol, diesel and liquid petroleum gas.
Answer
Comprehensive information isonly available for 2005-2006 as follows:
| Diesel2 | Unleaded Petrol/ Liquid Petroleum Gas1 |
| 9,462miles | 418,615miles |
Note:
1. As all GCS’ saloons are currentlydual fuel we cannot distinguish between miles travelled using unleaded petrol orliquid petroleum gas (LPG).
2. These miles were covered bythe only (people carrier) diesel vehicle in the Scottish Executive GCS’ fleet.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 29 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the fuel costs of the ministerial car fleet were in each of the last five years.
Answer
Expenditure on fuel used by theGovernment Car Service (Scotland) (GCS) in each of the last five years is shown in thefollowing table:
| Year1 | Fuel Costs (£) |
| E2001-02 | 39,026 |
| 2002-03 | 42,131 |
| 2003-04 | 47,178 |
| 2004-05 | 47,298 |
| 2005-06 | 59,3462 |
Notes:
1. Each year shown runs from1 April to 31 March.
2. Increase largely caused bya 20% increase in the cost of liquid petroleum gas.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 29 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the energy costs of each of its departments were in each of the last five years.
Answer
The fuel costs incurredby the Scottish Office from 1 April 1999 to 1 July 1999 and for the Scottish Executive from 1 July 1999 to 31 March 2005 are as follows:
| Year | Electricity | Gas | Liquid Fuel | Total all Fuel |
| 1999-2000 | £552,961 | £159,460 | £65,240 | £777,661 |
| 2000-01 | £566,760 | £127,478 | £77,249 | £771,487 |
| 2001-02 | £502,573 | £120,626 | £98,953 | £722,152 |
| 2002-03 | £592,545 | £131,963 | £18,618 | £743,126 |
| 2003-04 | £562,946 | £156,656 | £25,346 | £744,948 |
| 2004-05 | £529,336 | £261,209 | £54,652 | £845,197 |
| 2005-06 | £915,205 | £243,146 | £41,108 | £1,199,459 |
It is not possible to break downthese energy costs between departments as most fuel bills are rendered by referenceto individual buildings and most buildings contain staff from several departments.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 22 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to assist social landlords in setting up bulk procurement schemes for energy to cut the costs of home energy to tenants.
Answer
No.
