- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, what the expected contribution to the Waverley railway project is at 2012 prices from (a) Scottish Borders Council, (b) Midlothian Council, (c) City of Edinburgh Council, (d) Scottish Enterprise and (e) other developers.
Answer
As stated in the Parliament last week, the councils'' contribution will be £30 million. Exact details of each council''s contributions is a matter for the Waverley Railway Partnership to deliver.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, what element of the cost increase in the Waverley railway estimates relates to “the rise in land values in the Borders”.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-10736 on the 20 March 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, how much funding the proposed non-profit distributing vehicle will have to raise from the market, based on the current cost estimates, at 2012 prices.
Answer
As announced in my statement to the Parliament on 5 March 2008, the funding to be raised from the market based on the current cost estimates at 2012 prices is between £235 million and £290 million.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, when the Scottish Government will publish full details of the non-profit distributing vehicle proposed for the procurement of the Waverley railway project.
Answer
The Scottish Government is expected to publish full details of the non-profit distributing contract documents proposed for the procurement of the Waverley railway project after announcement of the preferred bidder/financial close.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, what element of the cost increase in the Waverley railway project estimates relates to “commitments that were made during the passage of the bill”, broken down by individual commitment.
Answer
The element of the cost increase in the Waverley railway project estimate which relates to commitments that were made during the passage of the Bill are for the provision of a station at Stow and requirements of the Register of Undertakings.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, what the range is at 2012 prices of the Scottish Government’s financial contribution to the Waverley railway project.
Answer
The range of the Scottish Government''s financial contributions to the Waverley railway project at 2012 prices will be as announced in my statement to the Parliament on 5 March 2008, less the contributions for the councils.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, what element of the cost increase in the Waverley railway estimates relates to factors other than “commitments that were made during the passage of the bill”, “other necessary technical requirements” or “the rise in land values in the Borders”, and what those factors are.
Answer
Announcing details of these cost increases would be inappropriate as their disclosure would prejudice future commercial negotiations.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, when the non-profit distributing vehicle proposed for procurement of the Waverley railway project will be formed.
Answer
The non-profit distributing vehicle proposed for procurement of the Waverley railway project will be formed at financial close.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, what element of the cost increase in the Waverley railway estimates relates to “other necessary technical requirements”, broken down by individual requirement.
Answer
Announcing details of these cost increases would be inappropriate as their disclosure would prejudice future commercial negotiations.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, in what ways the non-profit distributing model selected for the procurement of the Waverley railway project differs from the Scottish Futures Trust proposals.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to introducing an alternative funding mechanism to the traditional costly standard form of PFI, in the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT). The SFT is still under development “ the consultation period has just ended and account will need to be taken of the responses received to help inform the next stage of development. The final form that SFT will take will be set out in due course but we have made clear that it will follow the same non-profit distributing (NPD) approach which has been introduced for projects which would have followed the standard PFI approach in the past. An announcement on further SFT developments will be made when we are ready to inform the Parliament, as will further details of how the NPD approach will apply in the Waverley rail project.
