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Question reference: S4W-00597

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 17 June 2011

Scotland Rural Development Programme 2007-13	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Rural Development Contracts Rural Priorities	£0.000	£0.000	£23.128	£77.247
Rural Development Contracts Land Managers Options	£0.000	£0.000	£1.718	£2.379
Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation Grant Scheme	£0.000	£1.734	£3.714	£7.799
LEADER	£0.000	£0.000	£3.225	£8.198
Skills Development Scheme	£0.000	£0.000	£0.304	£0.402
Forestry Challenge Funds	£0.000	£0.008	£0.053	£0.358
Crofting Counties Agricultural Grant Scheme	£0.000	£0.000	£0.425	£1.415
Less Favoured Area Support Scheme	£56.961	£59.905	£62.714	£56.676
Total Payments	£56.961	£61.647	£95.281	£154.474

Legacy Schemes from Previous Rural Development Programme 2000-06	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Land Management Contract Menu Scheme	£19.685	£18.610	£18.348	£17.650
Woodland Grant Scheme	£4.338	£2.449	£2.088	£3.383
Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme	£22.282	£6.337	£9.278	£8.371
Environmentally Sensitive Areas	£4.620	£3.150	£2.040	£0.840
Organic Aid Scheme	£4.890	£4.510	£2.810	£1.720
Countryside Premium Scheme	£3.800	£2.710	£1.500	£0.734
Rural Stewardship Scheme	£22.020	£16.540	£12.800	£7.500
Habitats Scheme	£0.180	£0.140	£0.130	£0.110
Farm Woodland Scheme	£0.520	£0.044	£0.410	£0.350
Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme - Farmland Premium	£1.150	£1.210	£1.190	£1.160
Farm Woodland Premium Scheme	£4.910	£3.920	£3.150	£2.520
Total Payments	£88.395	£59.619	£53.744	£44.338

Note: Spend is reported in UK financial years as £ million.

Question reference: S4W-00292

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 16 June 2011

Question reference: S4W-00294

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 16 June 2011

Question reference: S4W-00295

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 16 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the road accident rate was on the A1 between Dunbar and the border with England in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010 and is in 2011, broken down by (i) single and (ii) dual carriageway sections.

Question reference: S4W-00291

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 16 June 2011

The accident data for the period 2008-10 is provided in the following table. Transport Scotland analyses the safety performance of the trunk road network using a database of injury accidents compiled by Scotland’s Police forces. This is the most reliable and consistent evidenced data available and is collated and analysed on an annual basis for each full calendar year. No data is yet available for 2011.

A1 Trunk Road: Personal Injury Accident and Three Year Accident Rate, in Comparison with the Trunk Road Network

2008 Accident Numbers

2009 Accident Numbers

2010 Accident Numbers

Three Year Total Accident Numbers

Three Year Average Accident Rate per 100 million veh. km

Dual

Single

Dual

Single

Dual

Single

Dual

Single

Dual

Single

Scottish Trunk Road	499	1125	487	1101	459	946	1445	3172	7.4	19
Scottish Trunk Road (Fatal)	13	39	11	43	14	40	38	122	0.2	0.7
A1 Trunk Road	26	17	25	17	27	13	78	47	7.35	17.6
A1 Trunk Road (Fatal)	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	3	0.09	1.12
A1 Dunbar to Border	2	12	7	17	3	13	12	42	10.15	15.74
A1 Dunbar to Border (Fatal)	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	0	1.12

The rates that have been provided are based on 2009 annual average daily traffic flows and the last three full years’ accident statistics. This is the normal practice when providing accident rates across the trunk road network to ensure consistent approach when reporting on accident rates.

The figures quoted may differ slightly from those published elsewhere because they were extracted on a different date and the database may have changed between the two dates, for example due to late returns or corrections to earlier returns. The rates are calculated using sample annual average daily traffic flows recorded in 2009.

Question reference: S4W-00293

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 16 June 2011

Question reference: S4W-00296

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 16 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the fatal road accident rate was on the A1 between Dunbar and the border with England in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010 and is in 2011, broken down by (i) single and (ii) dual carriageway sections.

Question reference: S4W-00288

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 9 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what form the road-based improvements on the A1 between Edinburgh and north east England, highlighted in the Strategic Transport Projects Review, will take.

Question reference: S4W-00289

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 9 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will produce a timetable forthe road-based improvements on the A1 between Edinburgh and north east England.

Question reference: S4W-00290

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 9 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to upgrade the A1 between Dunbar and the border with England.