- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 14 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what figures were used in calculating the present value of (a) benefits and (b) costs to determine the benefit to cost ratio for the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link, giving the respective values concerned, and whether these figures represent current assessments of benefits and costs.
Answer
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 |
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 14 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive which major transport projects have had a STAG appraisal since September 2003 and on what date each project was appraised.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the resources in the central unallocated provision is earmarked for major transport projects.
Answer
All pressures acrossthe Scottish Executive will be reviewed as part of the wider current Scottish ExecutiveSpending Review SSR07.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional political powers ministers believe are necessary in order for it to make Scotland a cleaner, greener place to live and what relevance this has to combating climate change.
Answer
Choosing Scotland’s Future was published on 14 August 2007 to provide a starting point and inspiration for a nationalconversation on the best type of government for Scotland’s future. There are numerous additional political powers, a number of whichare outlined in this document, where the Scottish Government believes that the additionaldevolution of powers currently reserved to the United Kingdom Parliament andgovernment would improve coherence and accountability, including in the deliveryof the government’s greener strategic objective, which includes combating climatechange.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what actions are being taken by Scottish Water in response to the 14, 390 complaints in 2006 about discoloured water, shown in Table 3.6b of Drinking Water Quality in Scotland 2006.
Answer
Scottish Water hasbeen tasked by the Drinking Water Quality Regulator (DWQR) with improving drinkingwater quality at 39 treatment works across Scotland to address colour problems as part of the current capital investment programmewhich covers the period 2006 to 2010. This represents improvements to drinking waterquality for around 1 million customers.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to receive a report from its expert group on road safety.
Answer
The panel ofexperts will contribute their knowledge and expertise at various stages in thedevelopment of the Scottish Road Safety Strategy. There is no requirement forthem to submit a formal report.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is available concerning progress in meeting the targets contained in Tomorrow’s Roads: safer for everyone.
Answer
Progress towardstargets is given in section 5, tables 3-5 and the charts on page 6 of Key2006 Road Accident Statistics published by the Scottish Executive in June2007 a copy of which is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre(Bib. number 42962).
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to use the land use planning system to lower road safety risks.
Answer
Land use planningguides future development and use of land in the long-term public interest. Theplanning system has a role in encouraging integrated transport which includes ensuringprovision of direct and safe access to local facilities by a choice of transportmodes. The Scottish Government expects the planning system to prioritise modes ofpersonal travel with walking first, then cycling, public transport and motorisedmodes. Transport Scotland as trunk roads authority, and elsewhere local authoritiesas roads authorities, must ensure that new developments take road safety into account.
In areas where policyis to encourage access on foot, for example town centres, the pedestrian shouldbe given priority over other modes. This should be reinforced through measures toreduce traffic speed, restrict the movement of vehicles and give pedestrians priorityover vehicles. Further detail on land use planning and transport including roadsafety can be found in Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) 17: Planning for Transport(2005), Planning Advice Note (PAN) 75: Planning for Transport (2005),and PAN 76: New Residential Streets (2005).
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual cost to the Executive is of road accidents and what information it has on the annual cost to Scotland of road accidents.
Answer
Tables 10 and 11of Road Accidents Scotland 2005, a copy of which is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 41118), show the result of applying Departmentfor Transport estimates of the average costs of accidents and casualties ofdifferent severities to the road accident and casualty figures for Scotland. On this basis, the total cost of all accidents inScotland was estimated to be £1,382 million per annum based on 2005.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to encourage international visitors to use Scottish roads safely.
Answer
Road SafetyScotland, funded by the Scottish Government, produces a multilingual leafletfor foreign visitors, which provides advice on how to drive safely on Scotland’s roads. A new series of leaflets, aimed particularlyat migrant workers, was issued in April this year. These leaflets, which areavailable in Polish, Lithuanian, Russian and French, provide detailedinformation about legal requirements for driving such as driver and vehiclelicensing, insurance, speed limits and the law on drink driving.
