Question reference: S2W-32676
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 19 March 2007
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Current status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 29 March 2007
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give, in respect of each of the components of the cost of the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link, the original cost estimate on which it relied and the current estimate.
Answer
A breakdown of costs hasalready been provided by the project promoter and is contained within thePromoters Memorandum for the EARL Private Bill under the Estimate of Expensesand Funding Statement, submitted to the Scottish Parliament on 16 March 2006. Theestimated cost of the project calculated at 4th quarter 2004 prices amounts to£497 million.
The projected outturn costof the EARL project is between £550 and £650 million.