- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 24 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to Lord MacFadyen's judgement in the Court of Session on the listed building application for 105-107 West Regent Street and 112 Wellington Street, Glasgow, what the wider implications of this are for decisions made by Scottish Ministers, since the incorporation into Scottish law of the European Convention on Human Rights, to (a) call in and refuse any planning applications, notices of intention to develop and listed building applications or (b) dismiss any planning appeals.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer to S1W-9028.
- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the operational and financial consequences for local authorities' integrated operations and efficient local resource utilisation for trunk and non-trunk maintenance, in the event that contracts for trunk road maintenance and management from 2001 are awarded to contractors other than local authority consortia.
Answer
Should local authorities not be successful in tendering for the new contracts, the impact on their other operations will depend on the arrangements they subsequently make. The Scottish Executive has not made an assessment of the many possible outcomes.
- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was paid in 1999-2000, and will be paid in 2000-01, to each of its all-purpose and premium unit contractors for trunk road management and, where appropriate, maintenance.
Answer
The net expenditure for trunk road management and maintenance by Premium and All Purpose Units in 1999-2000 and the estimated net expenditure for 2000-01 is as follows:-
Unit | Actual (£ 000s) 1999-2000 | Estimated (£000s) 2000-01 |
Forth Premium Unit | 14,412 | 15,000 |
Clyde Premium Unit | 22,629 | 18,000 |
Tay Premium Unit | 12,613 | 14,000 |
Northeast All Purpose Unit | 7,141 | 8,000 |
Northwest All Purpose Unit | 15,468 | 15,000 |
Central All Purpose Unit | 5,742 | 8,000 |
Southeast All Purpose Unit | 3,971 | 5,000 |
Southwest All Purpose Unit | 10,742 | 12,000 |
- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was paid in 1999-2000, and will be paid in 2000-01, to each local authority as council operation provider for work on trunk roads outwith the management and maintenance contracts.
Answer
The net expenditure for trunk road management and maintenance paid to each local authority as Council Operations Provider in 1999-2000 is shown in the table below.
The figures for 2000-2001 are not available.
Local Authority | 1999 - 2000 (£000s) |
Aberdeen City | 492 |
Aberdeenshire | 1,179 |
Argyll & Bute | 2,115 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 2,604 |
East Ayrshire | 427 |
Highland | 7,521 |
Inverclyde | 412 |
Midlothian | 523 |
Moray | 742 |
North Ayrshire | 1,066 |
Perth & Kinross | 1,362 |
Renfrewshire | 306 |
Scottish Borders | 1,545 |
South Ayrshire | 1,475 |
South Lanarkshire | 270 |
Stirling | 951 |
- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what proposals it has, in tendering for trunk road management and maintenance, to ensure that local authorities are entitled to sell on any surplus existing plant, equipment, vehicles or depots, when the new contracts are let in 2001, in the event that any such contracts are won by contractors other than local authority consortia.
Answer
The future ownership and deployment of these resources is entirely a matter for the local authorities.
- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will contract for any trunk road services with council operator providers after 2000-01 and, if so, for which services.
Answer
The responsibility for the provision of the majority of services on the trunk road network after 2000-01 will be determined by the outcome of the competition currently underway for the new management and maintenance term contracts. Council providers are developing competitive bids for each of the new contracts. Irrespective of who wins each of the competitions, it may be expedient for the Scottish Executive to contract, either with or without further competition, with local authorities under existing Agency Agreements for the provision of trunk road services after 1 April 2001 not included in the new contracts where there are good operational and financial reasons to do so.
- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-4229 and S1W-4662 by Sarah Boyack on 18 February and 21 March 2000, whether the Scottish Airports and Air Services Study has been submitted to the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions; whether the Scottish Executive has reconsidered its decision not to publish its response to the UK consultation; when it anticipates the formal UK consultation process will be launched; how the Scottish Executive will involve the Scottish Parliament in that consultation process, and whether the Scottish Executive will make its response to the UK consultation available to the Parliament so that the Parliament may take the Executive's position into account in framing its own responses.
Answer
The Scottish Airports and Air Services study report has now been submitted to the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions and the Scottish Executive. The findings from this study, from the other United Kingdom regional studies and from the UK Regional Air Services Co-ordination Study will be taken forward in consultation papers to be published later this year. In Scotland the consultation paper will be issued by the Scottish Executive in conjunction with DETR and will be laid before the Scottish Parliament; copies will be made available to the Transport and Environment Committee. The Executive will take account of the responses to the consultation exercise, including any from the Scottish Parliament and its Committee, before formulating any response to the UK Government. Any representations by the Executive which deal with matters reserved to the UK Parliament will require to be made in confidence in the same way as representations received by the Scottish Executive would be treated.
- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-3242 by Sarah Boyack on 20 January 2000, whether Scottish guidance on Airport Transport Forums and Airport Surface Access Strategies has now been issued.
Answer
I hope to publish the guidance later this year.
- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 21 August 2000
To ask the Presiding Officer what capital contracts are currently out to tender, or being prepared for tender, in relation to the Holyrood Project, indicating in each case the timescale for award of the contract, commencement on site, and completion of works.
Answer
The information is as follows:
Works Package | Estimated Award | Estimated Site Start | Estimated Completion |
| QH Demolition & Reconstruction | 25/08/00 | 04/09/00 | 25/06/01 |
| Lifts | 31/08/00 | 19/02/01 | 19/05/01 |
| MSP Roofing | 01/09/00 | 08/01/01 | 30/04/01 |
| Substructure Concrete EastBasement | 01/09/00 | 11/09/00 | 20/11/00 |
| MSP Cladding | 29/09/00 | 12/02/01 | 12/06/01 |
| Mechanical &Plumbing West | 29/09/00 | 12/02/01 | 29/07/02 |
| Electrical WorksWest | 13/10/00 | 19/03/01 | 19/06/01 |
| MSP Carpentry &Joinery | 13/10/00 | 02/04/01 | 03/12/01 |
| QH ExternalRender | 10/11/00 | 12/03/01 | 06/05/02 |
- Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 21 August 2000
To ask the Presiding Officer what capital contracts have been let so far in relation to the Holyrood Project, indicating in each case the timescale for the contract, the name of the successful contractor and the total cost of the contract.
Answer
The contract sums involved are commercially confidential. In line with standard public sector procurement policy the financial details of the successful tender are commercially confidential, as disclosure of such information could substantially prejudice the Company's future competitive position. The rest of the information is as follows:
Works Package | Contractor | Contract Let | Duration |
| Retention West Basement | Amec Civil Engineering Ltd | 19/04/99 | 4 months |
| Excavation West | Barr Ltd | 19/07/99 | 3 months |
| Well Probing | Wimtec Environmental Ltd | 22/07/99 | 11 months |
| Piling West Basement | Amec Civil Engineering Ltd | 13/09/99 | 3 months |
| Substructure West Basement | O'Rourke Civil Engineering Ltd | 12/10/99 | 5 months |
| Tower Cranes | Select Plant Hire Ltd | 06/11/99 | 20 months |
| Asbestos/Pigeon Dropping Removal | Chamic Industrial Services Ltd | 29/11/99 | 5 months |
| Well Drilling | Richies Ltd | 13/12/99 | 5 months |
| QH Scaffolding | Lyndon Scaffolding PLC | 29/02/00 | 19 months |
| MSP Frame | O'Rourke Civil Engineering Ltd | 10/04/00 | 10 months |
| Electrical Enabling works | James Scott Ltd | 08/05/00 | 10 months |
