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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S1W-06621

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 23 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive when the new appointments to the board of Caledonian MacBrayne will be announced.

Question reference: S1W-06607

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 23 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will commission a route action plan study for the A71 Edinburgh to Kilmarnock road.

Question reference: S1W-06622

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 19 May 2000

To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answers to questions S1W-6173 and S1W-6219 on 3 May 2000, whether copyright on the Scottish Parliament logo was applied automatically under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988; if so, why costs on copyright were incurred in the #20,000 overall project cost and what this cost was.

In terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, copyright in the logo subsists automatically. Copyright in the logo was transferred from the logo's designers to the SPCB. The cost of this transfer was included in the cost of the overall project. The actual cost is commercial-in-confidence because disclosure of the amount could affect the supplier's success in other competitions if his competitors, and potential clients, are aware of pricing for similar contracts.

Question reference: S1W-06637

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 19 May 2000

To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-6172 on 3 May 2000, whether there were any associated costs for the application for registration of the Scottish Parliament logo as a trademark with the Trademark Registry of the Patent Office and, if so, what they were; whether there were any previous applications for registration of any proposed logo; if so, how many and what the associated costs were.

There have been no previous applications for registration of any proposed logo.

The application for trademark is associated with the services of trademark agents. Their costs are commercial-in-confidence in accordance with the Parliament's procurement policy that recognises the need to protect private and sensitive third party information. The reasons for this are that it may distort future competition if the Parliament tenders for those, or similar, goods or services again, and because disclosure of the amount could affect the supplier's success in other competitions if his competitors, and potential clients, are aware of pricing for similar contracts.

Question reference: S1W-06636

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 19 May 2000

To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-6174 on 3 May 2000, what form the consultation with business managers took and, irrespective of whether it is a requirement to lay the logo before the Parliament for ratification, whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will now do so.

The consultation with the business managers took the form of a meeting where the managers reviewed and assessed different aspects of, and proposals for, the full design. The SPCB does not intend to lay the logo before the Parliament for ratification. This is one of many decisions which the SPCB was elected to undertake on behalf of this Parliament and significant expenditure has already been incurred in applying the logo to the stationary and other items which members have been requesting.

Question reference: S1W-06635

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 19 May 2000

To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-6173 on 3 May 2000, how many design ideas Redpath proposed and how many they were commissioned to propose; whether the winning entry in the students' competition was the design developed for full design and production as a logo; why the design costs are commercial-in-confidence, and why Redpath was chosen to propose design ideas.

Redpath was selected for the logo design commission because the SPCB considered that synthesis of existing text and the new logo was essential, and Redpath had designed the text-based corporate identity. The commission was for five design ideas, and the one that was selected for full design was not the winning entry in the students' competition, though that was shown to Redpath.

The design costs are commercial-in-confidence in accordance with the Parliament's procurement policy that recognises the need to protect private and sensitive third party information. The reasons for this are that it may distort future competition if the Parliament tenders for those, or similar, goods or services again, and because disclosure of the amount could affect the supplier's success in other competitions if his competitors, and potential clients, are aware of pricing for similar contracts.

Question reference: S1W-06515

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive when the outcome of the tendering exercise for management and maintenance of the Scottish trunk road network will be announced.

Question reference: S1W-01786

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 01 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 17 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what its target is for the rate of traffic increase over the next 10 and 20 years nationally and by travel to work area.

Question reference: S1W-06518

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 17 May 2000

To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-5936 on 6 April 2000, in respect of each of the 10 separate cost reports referred to in paragraph 4.2 of the Spencely report what was (a) the cost of the substructure element; (b) the total usable space within the substructure; (c) the proportion of this usable space allocated to car parking; (d) the total number of parking spaces to be provided within the substructure, and (e) the total parking provision within the site.

Question reference: S1W-06516

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 17 May 2000

To ask the Presiding Officer what unforeseen site conditions have been experienced during the planning period for the Holyrood complex and the period of construction of the substructure and what additional costs have been incurred as a result.