- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether tolls on the Tay and Forth road bridges will be temporarily removed for any period during its bridge toll impact study.
Answer
Ministers do not propose toseek any temporary removal of the tolls.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will release the names of all those submitting tenders to conduct its bridge toll impact study.
Answer
A deadline has not yet beenset for the submission of tenders. A decision on whether the identities ofthose submitting tender bids will be published will be taken in due course.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what its preferred outcome is from the bridge toll impact study.
Answer
We will undertake a robustexamination of costs and impacts of the bridge tolls, and examine carefully anyevidence submitted by individuals and organisations in the course of the study.There is no preferred or predetermined outcome.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the deadline is for the submission of tenders by parties who wish to conduct its bridge toll impact study.
Answer
A deadline has not yet beenset for the submission of tenders. We expect to appoint suitable consultants bythe end of the summer.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much its bridge toll impact study will cost.
Answer
We will engage independentconsultants to carry out the study through a competitive tendering process. Itwould therefore be inappropriate to speculate on the costs of the study at thisstage.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive why a specific examination of the impact of toll charges was not required in advance of the removal of tolls from the Erskine and Skye bridges.
Answer
Phase One of the tolledbridges review included an examination of the impact of the then existingtolling structures, and the way in which potential changes to tolls could helpachieve the Scottish Executive’s environmental and economic objectives ofreducing pollution and congestion. Phase Two included an examination of thebroader issues relating to the management, operation and maintenance of thetolled bridges. Ministers’ decisions toend tolling at both Skye and Erskine bridges followed the principlesestablished in the review, and the outcomes of those examinations.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much revenue it estimates will be generated by Tay road bridge tolls between May and December 2006.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-21720 on 10 January 2006. All answersto 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: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on examining the issue of bridge tolls since 2000.
Answer
The costs of consultancywork, temporary staff, printing, publishing and other costs associated with thetwo phase tolled bridges review total some £315,795 between 2003-04 and2005-06. The costs of officials’ time and expenses are not separatelyidentified.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when a decision on tolls on the Tay road bridge is likely to be announced.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-26096 on 6 June. Allanswers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 5 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many live, single, full-term babies with a birth weight of under 2.5 kg have been born in each (a) NHS board area and (b) parliamentary constituency, broken down by (i) social class and (ii) home address postcode in each year since 2000.
Answer
The latest information by (a)health board of residence and (b) parliamentary constituency broken down by theSocial Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 39706).
The Scottish Executiveis unable to provide a breakdown by home address postcode due to the risk of disclosure.
