- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 March 2000
-
Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 23 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what has been the rate of child pedestrian casualties and deaths per 100,000 of the population for each year since 1995.
Answer
Full information about road accident casualties is published annually by the Scottish Executive in
Road Accidents Scotland, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
The information requested is set out in the table below.
Child pedestrian casualties: rate per 100,000 population
| | All casualties | Killed and seriously injured | Deaths |
1995 | 198 | 62 | 1.5 |
1996 | 186 | 53 | 1.6 |
1997 | 186 | 49 | 1.5 |
1998 | 174 | 45 | 1.8 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 January 2000
-
Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 19 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will fund a feasibility study into a rail link for Edinburgh Airport.
Answer
The potential for a rail link to serve Edinburgh airport has been examined a number of times. Currently it appears to be commercially unviable. It has been estimated that insufficient demand exists to justify the significant amount of capital investment required to provide a rail link and station. The proposed City of Edinburgh Rapid Transit guided bus-way will provide direct links with the Edinburgh to Glasgow railway line.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Friday, 31 March 2000
-
Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 19 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding and support it will give to provide a rail link to Edinburgh Airport.
Answer
I refer Mr MacAskill to my answer to question S1W-3672.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
-
Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of what consideration has been or will be given to passenger safety in relation to the tendering for CalMac routes.
Answer
The Executive attaches high priority to passenger safety in relation to all ferry routes. As in the case of the tendering exercise currently underway for the Northern Isles services, the service specification in relation to CalMac routes, will require the successful tenderers to comply with the safety regulations.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
-
Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers the Strategic Rail Authority has with regard to the appointment and functioning of the Office of the Rail Regulator and how many meetings it has had with the Rail Regulator, detailing dates.
Answer
Under Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998, the provision and regulation of railway services is a reserved matter. I last met the Rail Regulator on 28 September 1999, and my officials meet his frequently.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
-
Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of fuel for vehicles for each police force in each year since 1997.
Answer
The cost of fuel for vehicles for each police force in each year since 1997 is shown in the following table.
Force | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1998-99 |
Central | £237,179 | £246,779 | £280,580 |
Dumfries & Galloway | £192,290 | £225,314 | £260,547 |
Fife | £241,867 | £319,209 | £334,836 |
Grampian | £422,336 | £482,735 | £511,891 |
Lothian & Borders | £648,562 | £771,461 | £801,331 |
Northern | £307,400 | £313,729 | £368,205 |
Strathclyde | £1,836,572 | £1,877,648 | £2,200,938 |
Tayside | £365,721 | £406,143 | £427,450 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
-
Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what response it will give to the Network Management Statement for Railtrack, which schemes it intends to support financially, which it supports in principle, and which it rejects, giving its reasoning in each case.
Answer
The project proposals outlined in Railtrack's
2000 Network Management Statement for Scotland will help inform the Scottish Executive's consideration of the strategic priorities for the Scottish railway network. These priorities will underpin the directions and guidance that will be issued to the Strategic Rail Authority for the passenger services that begin and end in Scotland. The directions and guidance will not contain detailed prescription about infrastructure. It will be for the train operating company, in conjunction with Railtrack, to ensure the availability of the necessary infrastructure and rolling stock to meet the terms of the franchise.
Individual infrastructure projects may of course be eligible for support from public resources, for instance from the Public Transport Fund or the Railway Passenger partnership fund. These funds have already assisted a number of rail projects in Scotland.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
-
Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation or input it had regarding the English High Court action raised by Greenpeace on the EU Habitat Directives relating to the Atlantic Shelf area and decided on by Lord Justice Kay, and what effect this judgement has had on its policy and powers and those of the Parliament.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has been fully involved in the UK Government's consideration of this case and its consequences. The implementation of the Habitats Directive beyond the territorial sea remains the reserved matter.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
-
Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what is the number, extent and identity of fields and play areas lost in the City of Edinburgh since 1997.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 May 2000
-
Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it now has to promote the re-establishment of the Borders railway.
Answer
A working group of the key stakeholders, led by Scottish Borders Council, has been established to consider how best to take forward the conclusions of the Scottish Borders Railway Feasibility Study.
