- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 6 March 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer whether a copy of the contract with Flour City Architectural Metals (UK) Ltd will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Answer
The Parliament has received legal advice that the documents requested should not be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre while the SPCB's rights and entitlements are still being evaluated, as they may form part of the productions in any litigation which may follow.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 6 March 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer whether the tender document submitted by Flour City Architectural Metals (UK) Ltd will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Answer
The Parliament has received legal advice that the documents requested should not be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre while the SPCB's rights and entitlements are still being evaluated, as they may form part of the productions in any litigation which may follow.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 6 March 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-20306 on 7 December 2001, whether copies of the invoices in respect of each of the five payments will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Answer
The Parliament has received legal advice that the documents requested should not be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre while the SPCB's rights and entitlements are still being evaluated, as they may form part of the productions in any litigation which may follow.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 5 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will require the Scottish Agricultural College to reconsider its proposals in regard to Auchincruive.
Answer
The Scottish Agricultural College is currently still developing its proposals. No decisions have been taken and their final plans have yet to be submitted to ministers. When they are we will give them full and careful consideration.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 5 March 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-19252 on 14 November 2001, what assurances were provided, by whom and on what dates; whether the documentation regarding these assurances will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre; whether the "recovery programmes" and the "sample delivery dates" will be published, and what work commenced on site in June 2001.
Answer
The Convenor of the Holyrood Progress Group has confirmed that Flour City Architectural Metals (FCAM) (UK) Ltd's Project Manager provided assurances over design information dates to our Construction Manager, on 17 May 2001. FCAM (UK) Ltd also presented a recovery programme, which anticipated delivery of a window sample on 22 June 2001. FCAM (UK) Ltd started work on site in June 2001 that mainly involved design work, surveys, initiating the procurement of materials and assembled units, and issuing installation method statements. The Parliament has received legal advice that related documentation should not be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre while the SPCB's rights and entitlements are still being evaluated, as it may form part of the productions in any litigation which may follow.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 5 March 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-18874 on 12 October 2001, (a) what the breakdown of costs was for the work undertaken on (i) design and (ii) specialist cladding services which amounted to #854,000 in total and (b) whether all invoices and documents relating to the work undertaken will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre and what the reasons are for the position on this matter.
Answer
A full analysis of the payments made to Flour City Architectural Metals (UK) Ltd, for the design and specialist cladding for the MSP block, has been undertaken. The following detailed breakdown can now be provided:
Description | Amount |
Warehouse facilities & equipment | £24,250.00 |
Site facilities, equipment & supplier visit costs | £56,623.80 |
Design & engineering | £352,500.00 |
Site Management Team | £236,250.00 |
Transport, communications & site housekeeping | £49,136.50 |
Overheads & profit | £161,721.00 |
Sub Total | £880,481.30 |
Less 3% retention | (£26,414.44) |
Total Payments | £854,066.86 |
The Parliament has received legal advice that the documents requested should not be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre while the SPCB's rights and entitlements are still being evaluated, as they may form part of the productions in any litigation which may follow.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 5 March 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-19154 on 14 November 2001, on what date Flour City Architectural Metals (UK) Ltd was required to submit a performance bond; who was responsible for ensuring that Flour City fulfilled that obligation; what steps were taken to seek performance of that obligation and when any such steps were taken; whether the absence of the performance bond will result in sub-contractors of Flour City not receiving payments of their accounts, and whether the principal contractors have any liability towards these sub-contractors.
Answer
The Project's construction manager, Bovis Lend Lease Ltd, actively pursued a performance bond from Flour City Architectural Metals (FCAM) (UK) Ltd, during the period April-July 2001, in anticipation of the full Trade Contract being concluded. Once in place however, the Trade Contract required submission of an agreed performance bond by 17 August 2001. When this was not provided the relevant "notice of failure" was issued on 30 August 2001. Shortly after "notice of failure", a meeting was held with FCAM (International) senior management and a further deadline, of 14 September 2001, was set for provision of a performance bond. This deadline was not met and "notice of intention to terminate contract" was duly issued to FCAM (UK) Ltd on 26 September 2001. The performance bond was a requirement of the contract between the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body and FCAM (UK) Ltd, and has no bearing on contracts between FCAM (UK) Ltd and its subcontractors. The SPCB has no contractual liability to FCAM (UK) Ltd's subcontractors.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its position is that local authority licensing boards should have the power to impose a ban on drinking in public designated areas or streets.
Answer
We have no plans at present to amend the provisions in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 which provides local authorities with general powers to introduce bylaws which, for example, may ban drinking in public designated areas or streets.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will encourage the provision of training for members of local authority licensing boards.
Answer
We shall consider any recommendations the Nicholson Committee might make in this regard.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning will visit Aviemore and travel along the A95 in order to observe the condition of the road and what assessment it has made of the importance of the road to the whisky industry and the local economy as a whole.
Answer
I visited Aviemore and travelled along the A95 on 11 February 2002.Trunk roads are defined as nationally important routes that serve destinations of importance to industry, commerce, agriculture and tourism. As such the 1996 Shaping the Trunk Road Network report designated the A95 a trunk road in view of its importance to the economically productive Strath Spey valley industries (including the whisky industry) and in order to provide a gateway to the fishing centres along the Moray coast.
