Question reference: S6W-10015
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 27 July 2022
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 16 August 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much it paid private consultants in the financial year 2021-22 for technical advisory services in relation to ScotRail, and how much it estimates it will pay for this in the financial year 2022-23.
Answer
For details of consultant costs for 2021-22 in relation to the Abellio ScotRail Franchise I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-08601 on 6 June 2022. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers
Following the move in April 2022 to bring ScotRail services into public ownership, any ScotRail costs for consultants in financial year 2022-23 are costs incurred by ScotRail Trains Ltd and as such the full details of this will provided by ScotRail Trains Ltd as soon as practicable after the end of the financial year in March 2023.