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East Dunbartonshire is supplied from Milngavie water treatmentworks. The failed tests for trihalomethanes in 2006 were directly attributable tothe limited treatment at Milngavie water treatment works. Scottish Water is currentlyinvesting £120 million to improve the treatment process at Milngavie and this includesaddressing the level of trihalomethanes. 250,000 customers served by Milngavie arealready being supplied with improved quality drinking water and the final 450,000will officially be switched over to the new supply on 3 October 2007.

The totalpayments made to bus and ferry operators in respect of concessionary travelschemes were £154.56 million and £0.507 million respectively in 2006-2007 (thefirst year of operation of the schemes).

The followingtable identifies the values used to calculate the 2.16 Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR)for the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link (EARL). The figures in the table were includedin the Design Development Appraisal (DDA) from December 2005. All values are expressed in discounted 2002prices over a standard 60 year appraisal period.

User Benefits		STAG	PVB-60 (£ Million)
Safety	Accident Savings	PV1	£2.58
Travel Time	Highway Time Savings		£433.65
	PT Time Savings		£772.73
	Rail Stopping Delays		-£68.27
	Net Time Savings (Sub-Total)	PV2	£1,138.10
User Charges	User Charges	PV3	-£242.54
VOC	Fuel		£36.32
	Taxation		£121.61
	Non-Fuel		£48.64
	Net VOC (Sub-Total)	PV4.a	£206.57
Quality/Reliability	Performance Impacts		-£18.98
	Station Facilities		£32.66
	New Rolling Stock		£0.00
	Net Quality/Reliability (Sub-Total)	PV4.b	£13.68
Residual Value	Residual Value at the of appraisal period	PV4.c	£12.82
Private Sector Costs		STAG
Private Sector Provider Impacts	Investment costs from private sector	PV5	£0.00
	Operations, Maintenance & Renewals Costs	PV6	-£275.78
Revenues	EARL (Airport-bound trips)		£379.54
	EARL (Non-Airport trips)		£0.00
	Bus and Coach		-£48.19
	LRT		-£88.80
	Net Revenue (Sub-Total)	PV7	£242.54
Grant/Subsidy	Grant subsidy from Private Sector	PV8	£0.00
	Present Value of Benefits (PVB)		£1,097.98
Public Sector Impacts		STAG
Investment Costs	Investment Costs from Public Sector	PV9	-£387.17
OMR Costs	Operations, Maintenance & Renewals	PV10	£0.00
Grant/Subsidy	Grant/Subsidy required to operate system	PV11	£0.00
Revenues	Revenue Streams from Public Sector	PV12	£0.00
Taxation	Taxation from Public Sector	PV13	-£121.61
	Present Value of Costs to Government (PVC)		-£508.78
Net Present Value (NPV)			£589.20
NPV/K Ratio			1.52
Benefit/Cost Ratio (BCR) to Government			2.16

 

I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-3891 on 14 September 2007. 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.

Information is notavailable in the format requested.

The Scottish Governmenthas committed £410,000 for road safety media in 2007-08. A further £488,329 hasbeen allocated for safety camera related publicity on speeding and red light running.

The government providesfunding to Road Safety Scotland for the development of road safety education resourcesand publicity messages. Road Safety Scotland has allocated £375,000 for road safetypublicity in the current financial year. Road Safety Scotland’s budget for 2007-08,showing a breakdown of expenditure, can be accessed at www.srsc.org.uk/about/ar_bp_07-08.asp.

For the years up to2005, the information requested can be obtained from the figures which appear inthe “Scotland” totals in table 36 ofRoad Accidents Scotland 2005, published by the Scottish Executive in November2006, which is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number41118). The corresponding figures for 2006 are given in the following table.

People Killed inRoad Accidents in Scotland in 2006

Type of Road	Number of Deaths
Trunk roads	102
Local authority roads	211
All roads	313

 

The Scottish Governmenthas no functions in relation to vehicle safety standards.

The Scottish Governmentprovides funding to Road Safety Scotland for the development of road safety educationresources and publicity messages. Details of Road Safety Scotland’s budget for 2007-08,showing a breakdown of expenditure, can be accessed at www.srsc.org.uk/about/ar_bp_07-08.asp.

Future resources forRoad Safety Scotland will be dependent on the outcome of the current Strategic SpendingReview.

Data about injuryroad accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Governmentusing the Stats 19 statistical report form. These returns cover only road accidentsin which one or more people were injured and which become known to the police. Thereturns do not cover damage-only accidents or accidents of which the police areunaware because they were not reported by the public.

The specificationof the Stats 19 returns includes a code which the police can use to identify asnon-UK residents any drivers or riders, of vehicles involved in reported accidents,whose homes are outwith the UK. However, this information is not availablein all cases - for example, the police will have no knowledge of the areas of residenceof hit and run drivers. The true number of foreign motorists involved in accidentswill therefore be higher than would appear from the Stats 19 data, and the truenumber of accidents involving foreign motorists will therefore be higher than thefigures given in the following table.

Reported InjuryRoad Accidents which Involved Motor Vehicle Drivers or Riders who were Coded inthe Stats 19 Returns as being Non-UK Residents

Year	Accidents
2002	104
2003	103
2004	105
2005	116
2006	97

 

On average, therefore,about 105 accidents per year involved a foreign motorist. Over the same period,there were on average 13,713 reported injury road accidents per year (as shown intable 8 of Key 2006 Road Accident Statistics, published in June 2007 by the Scottish Executive, copies of which are available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib number 42962)). The proportion of reported injury road accidentswhich involved a foreign motorist is therefore about 0.008 (i.e. 0.8%).

No major transportproject has been considered for approval or funding since September 2003 withoutthe appropriate appraisal being in place.