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Question reference: S3W-33987

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 9 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all funding allocations that it has provided to Angus Council to help with flood prevention measures since May 2007.

In 2007-08, Angus Council did not have any flood prevention schemes eligible for the then ring-fenced flood prevention grant. From 1 April 2008, £126 million for flood prevention/coast protection was rolled-up into the General Capital Grant over the three years, 2008 to 2011. The distribution of this funding was agreed with COSLA to take into account known schemes in certain local authorities and the level of flood risk in every council area. The total support for capital for Angus Council over the period 2008-11 is £46.680 million, which includes £21.576 million of General Capital Grant and £22.428 million of supported borrowing. It is the responsibility of Angus Council to allocate the total financial resources available to it on the basis of local needs and priorities having first fulfilled its statutory obligations and the jointly agreed set of national and local priorities including the Scottish Government''s key strategic objectives.

Question reference: S3W-33988

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 9 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all funding allocations that it has provided to Stirling Council to help with flood prevention measures since May 2007.

In 2007-08, Stirling Council did not have any flood prevention schemes eligible for the then ring-fenced flood prevention grant. From 1 April 2008, £126 million for flood prevention/coast protection was rolled-up into the General Capital Grant over the three years, 2008 to 2011. The distribution of this funding was agreed with COSLA to take into account known schemes in certain local authorities and the level of flood risk in every council area. The total support for capital for Stirling Council over the period 2008-11 is £38.72 million, which includes £17.527 million of General Capital Grant and £18.321 million of supported borrowing. It is the responsibility of Stirling Council to allocate the total financial resources available to it on the basis of local needs and priorities having first fulfilled its statutory obligations and the jointly agreed set of national and local priorities including the Scottish Government''s key strategic objectives.

Question reference: S3W-33772

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil service jobs it has relocated since May 2007 and how many of these were relocated to Perth and Kinross.

Question reference: S3W-33773

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 1 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the improvements that have been carried out to the A9 since May 2007, showing when these improvements were first announced.

The following trunk road improvement schemes have been carried out on the A9 since May 2007:

Scheme	Publication of Draft Orders	Project Status
Ballinluig junction	7 October 2005	complete
Helmsdale phase2	16 March 2007	complete
Bankfoot junction improvement	18 December 2007	complete
Carrbridge WS2+1	No orders required.	complete
Moy WS2+1	20 January 2009	under construction
Loaninghead interchange improvement	private developer scheme - no orders required	under construction
Crubenmore	27 February 2007	in procurement

Question reference: S3W-33199

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 April 2010
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 May 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive on what 20 roads the highest number of (a) accidents and (b) fatalities have been recorded in each of the last five years.

The following tables provide statistics requested and are ranked by estimates per km of road.

2004
Injury Road Accidents			Fatalities
Road	Number of Injury Road Accidents	Per km of Road	Road	Number of Road Accident Fatalities	Per km of Road
A8	307	3.89	A916	3	0.19
A761	90	2.85	A77	12	0.08
M8	238	2.72	M74	4	0.08
A726	96	1.97	A91	5	0.06
A89	99	1.67	A90	13	0.05
A71	178	1.60	A92	7	0.05
A70	88	1.59	A85	7	0.05
A814	100	1.51	A96	7	0.04
A78	95	1.38	A9	17	0.04
A90	271	1.12	A8	3	0.04
A1	90	1.02	A71	4	0.04
A7	130	0.99	A72	3	0.04
A77	137	0.91	A70	4	0.03
A92	124	0.84	A859	3	0.03
A82	215	0.79	A701	3	0.03
A96	123	0.74	A82	7	0.03
A803	89	0.73	A702	3	0.02
A702	93	0.70	A83	3	0.02
A85	105	0.69	A87	3	0.02
A9	213	0.49	A93	3	0.02

Note: Each sub-table lists only twenty roads, therefore, in some cases, other roads may have the same numbers of injury road accidents, or fatalities, as the last road shown in a particular sub-table. For example, the A702 was not the only road which had three fatalities in 2004.

Source: Scottish Government STATS 19 Return

2005
Injury Road Accidents			Fatalities
Road	Number of Injury Road Accidents	Per km of Road	Road	Number of Road Accident Fatalities	Per km of Road
A8	269	3.41	A74	3	0.24
A761	84	2.66	A923	5	0.10
M8	222	2.54	A947	6	0.09
A814	107	1.62	A811	3	0.06
A803	89	1.60	A1	5	0.06
A89	94	1.59	A92	7	0.05
A726	77	1.58	A85	7	0.05
A721	72	1.52	A814	3	0.05
A71	143	1.29	A76	4	0.04
A1	110	1.25	A713	3	0.04
A77	154	1.02	A90	9	0.04
A90	235	0.97	A82	10	0.04
A7	126	0.96	A70	4	0.03
A96	139	0.83	A75	5	0.03
A92	120	0.81	A7	4	0.03
A82	209	0.77	A71	3	0.03
A70	87	0.71	A701	3	0.03
A702	73	0.55	A96	4	0.02
A85	73	0.48	A77	3	0.02
A9	192	0.44	A9	5	0.01

2006
Injury Road Accidents			Fatalities
Road	Number of Injury Road Accidents	Per km of Road	Road	Number of Road Accident Fatalities	Per km of Road
A8	301	3.81	A726	5	0.10
A761	85	2.69	A90	17	0.07
M8	224	2.56	A8	5	0.06
A726	96	1.97	A84	3	0.06
A814	113	1.71	A6105	3	0.06
A89	97	1.64	A947	4	0.06
A803	79	1.42	A76	5	0.05
A81	78	1.35	A96	9	0.05
A71	144	1.30	A75	8	0.05
A73	80	1.27	M8	4	0.05
A7	145	1.10	A71	5	0.05
A1	91	1.04	A97	4	0.04
A90	244	1.01	A95	4	0.04
A77	133	0.88	A9	17	0.04
A92	109	0.74	A82	10	0.04
A82	183	0.67	A91	3	0.04
A70	78	0.64	A701	4	0.04
A96	101	0.60	A72	3	0.04
A85	86	0.57	A92	4	0.03
A9	236	0.54	A77	4	0.03

2007
Injury Road Accidents			Fatalities
Road	Number of Injury Road Accidents	Per km of Road	Road	Number of Road Accident Fatalities	Per km of Road
A8	254	3.22	A8011	3	0.42
A761	79	2.50	A752	3	0.24
M8	193	2.21	A76	7	0.08
M74	85	1.62	A828	3	0.07
A814	105	1.59	M8	6	0.07
A89	93	1.57	A1	5	0.06
A726	74	1.52	A8	4	0.05
A1	103	1.17	A82	13	0.05
A71	126	1.13	A77	7	0.05
A90	248	1.02	A90	11	0.05
A77	137	0.91	A970	5	0.04
A7	118	0.90	A83	6	0.04
A82	228	0.84	A85	5	0.03
A92	114	0.77	A96	5	0.03
A70	81	0.66	A9	13	0.03
A96	109	0.65	A93	5	0.03
A85	94	0.62	A92	4	0.03
A702	76	0.57	A71	3	0.03
A75	80	0.52	A75	4	0.03
A9	217	0.49	A702	3	0.02

2008
Injury Road Accidents			Fatalities
Road	Number of Injury Road Accidents	Per km of Road	Road	Number of Road Accident Fatalities	Per km of Road
M8	224	2.56	A749	3	0.25
A8	199	2.52	A721	6	0.13
M74	107	2.04	A847	3	0.13
A89	92	1.56	B9022	3	0.12
A814	95	1.43	A904	3	0.10
A803	75	1.35	M8	8	0.09
A71	145	1.31	A947	5	0.08
A81	70	1.22	A96	4	0.06
A78	72	1.05	A91	5	0.06
A90	252	1.04	A92	6	0.06
A1	89	1.01	A98	4	0.05
A7	132	1.00	A8	3	0.04
A68	82	0.83	A90	9	0.04
A92	108	0.73	A82	10	0.04
A82	181	0.67	A71	4	0.04
A77	98	0.65	A9	15	0.03
A70	79	0.65	A75	5	0.03
A85	96	0.63	A85	4	0.03
A96	105	0.63	A1	2	0.02
A9	183	0.42	A68	2	0.02

Question reference: S3W-33350

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 23 April 2010
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 May 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to make a decision on the proposed Calliacher wind farm development.

Question reference: S3W-33351

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 23 April 2010
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 May 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to make a decision on the proposed Logiealmond wind farm development.

Question reference: S3O-10359

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 May 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 May 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the recent HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) report on Perth Prison.

Question reference: S3W-32832

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 29 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Scottish and Southern Energy regarding undergrounding sections of the Beauly to Denny power line upgrade in the Stirling area.

Scottish Power Transmission Ltd (SPT) have responsibility for constructing the overhead line upgrade in the Stirling area.

Discussions have been held between Scottish Government officials, SPT and Stirling Council regarding the Stirling Visual Impact Mitigation Scheme. No proposals have been submitted. Undergrounding part or parts of the new line remains one of the options open to the developer in seeking to mitigate the visual impact of the line in the Stirling area. This is also the case in respect of the Glenside Mitigation Scheme.

Question reference: S3W-32833

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 29 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Scottish and Southern Energy regarding undergrounding sections of the Beauly to Denny power line upgrade in Perthshire.