- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 10 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-2090 by Nicol Stephen on 10 November 2003, what the legal basis is for negotiations relating to a buy-out being subject to commercial confidentiality.
Answer
The contract documentationrelating to the Skye Bridge project includes a confidentiality clause whichrequires both parties to the agreement to hold in confidence all documents andother information supplied by and on behalf of the other.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 10 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a table showing how the balance outstanding on the Skye Bridge contract reduces annually by net discounted tolls.
Answer
We are currently examiningin detail all of the financial information relating to the Skye Bridgeproject. This information, and the detailed terms of the contract itself, arenow the subject of commercially confidential negotiations with Skye BridgeLimited, with a view to ending the discredited toll regime for the Skye Bridge.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 9 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Skye Bridge Ltd has made a direct formal request to treat the sum outstanding on the Skye Bridge contract as commercially confidential.
Answer
No. We are currentlyexamining in detail all of the financial information relating to the Skye Bridgeproject. This information, and the detailed terms of the contract itself, arenow the subject of commercially confidential negotiations with Skye BridgeLimited, with a view to ending the discredited toll regime for the Skye Bridge.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 8 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when current forecasts predict that the assigned licence total of #23.64 million in respect of the Skye Bridge will be met.
Answer
We are currently examiningin detail all of the financial information relating to the Skye Bridgeproject. This information, and the detailed terms of the contract itself, arenow the subject of commercially confidential negotiations with Skye BridgeLimited, with a view to ending the discredited toll regime for the Skye Bridge.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 8 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what elements of financial devaluation are applied to every #100 collected at the Skye Bridge tollbooths for every year of operation of the tolling concession before the residual sum is applied as a credit against the total debt of #23.64 million stated on the licence.
Answer
We are currently examiningin detail all of the financial information relating to the Skye Bridgeproject. This information, and the detailed terms of the contract itself, arenow the subject of commercially confidential negotiations with Skye BridgeLimited, with a view to ending the discredited toll regime for the Skye Bridge.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 8 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what advantage will accrue to taxpayers and the residents of Skye and Lochalsh by not specifying the sum outstanding on the Skye Bridge contract that remains to be collected through tolling by the concessionaire.
Answer
We are currently examiningin detail all of the financial information relating to the Skye Bridgeproject. This information, and the detailed terms of the contract itself, arenow the subject of commercially confidential negotiations with Skye BridgeLimited, with a view to ending the discredited toll regime for the Skye Bridge.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 8 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a schedule that compares for every year since inception of the tolling licence the gross toll receipts and the discounted value of those receipts used to reduce the outstanding balance.
Answer
We are currently examiningin detail all of the financial information relating to the Skye Bridgeproject. This information, and the detailed terms of the contract itself, arenow the subject of commercially confidential negotiations with Skye BridgeLimited, with a view to ending the discredited toll regime for the Skye Bridge.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the Ministry of Defence regarding the environmental impact of the decommissioning of nuclear submarines and storage of nuclear material on the west of Scotland, in particular on Faslane and Coulport.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is taking a close interest inthe consultation process. We have engaged with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) onprocedural aspects of the consultation process, in order to ensure that theissues are aired at a local and national level. We have made it clear to theMoD that we expect to be kept fully informed of developments. The environmentalimpact of any proposal taken forward will be fully assessed by the regulators.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish comparative budget data showing departmental expenditure on a consistent basis in each year from 1999 to 2003.
Answer
The Executive are currentlydiscussing with the Parliament’s Finance Committee how we can address thedifficult technical issues around the provision of fully comparable data. Iwould hope to able to provide data helpful to the committee shortly after thosediscussions have been completed.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish comparative budget data showing departmental expenditure on a consistent basis in each year from 1993 to 1998 and, if so, when.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-3807. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
