- 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 why it waited until May 2006 to announce details of its bridge tolls study after giving an initial indication in March 2006 that it would undertake this work.
Answer
Early work in preparationfor the study has been undertaken since the initial announcement on 30 March 2006, whichled to the announcement of the study details on 17 May 2006.
- 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 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 it will fund its bridge toll impact study.
Answer
The study will be fundedfrom the Executive’s transport programme.
- 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 abolish the tolls on the Forth and Tay road bridges should that be the recommendation of its bridge toll impact study.
Answer
We will consider theoutcomes of the study carefully before taking decisions on the way forward.
- 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 Malcolm Chisholm on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of child poverty was in Dundee and what funding was allocated to address this issue in (a) 2000-01, (b) 2001-02, (c) 2002-03, (d) 2003-04, (e) 2004-05 and (f) 2005-06, broken down by local authority ward area.
Answer
This information requestedis not available. Child poverty is tackled in a cross-cutting manner throughinvestment across a range of portfolios. Information on expenditure under theseprogrammes is not available at a ward area level and official information onlevels of child poverty is taken from UK datasets which do not provide breakdowns at localauthority level.
Across Scotland as a whole,since 1996-97 we have lifted 130,000 children out of relative low income(370,000 to 240,000 – after housing costs) and nearly two thirds of childrenfrom absolute low income (from 370,000 to 130,000 after housing costs).
The official source of lowincome data for Scotland is the Households Below Average Income (HBAI)dataset available from 1994-95. This is derived from the Family ResourcesSurvey (FRS). The sample size of the FRS in Scotland is relatively smalland can only be used to provide information for Scotland as a whole.
- 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.
