- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the business case for the Borders railway must reflect inflationary factors such as construction costs and, if so, how such costs will be calculated.
Answer
The business case should be presentedin 2002 prices. It is for Waverley Railway Partnership to propose the approach toinflation in its business case.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what input it has had to the Department for Transport's criteria for the placement of road markings since May 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is represented at official level on the Department for Transport Road MarkingsTechnical Working Party.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider funding an application from the Waverley Route Trust in respect of its proposed research project on modification of the current railway specification to accommodate the movement of charter and freight trains and of express services taking under 50 minutes from Tweedbank to Edinburgh and a specialist technical, operational and business case study of the potential application of innovative approaches to the Borders railway.
Answer
No. We have funded the WaverleyRailway Partnership to take the project to the current stage. The specificationof the railway is a matter for the partnership to justify in its business case.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the fourth supplementary question to question S2F-194 by the First Minister on 11 September 2003, what criteria will be applied to assess the business case for the Borders Railway.
Answer
All business cases are requiredto be compliant with the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidelines (STAG)
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the fourth supplementary question to question S2F-194 by the First Minister on 11 September 2003, whether the Waverley railway partnership has been advised of the criteria to be applied to assess the business case for the Borders Railway.
Answer
I can confirm that Waverley railwaypartnership has been advised of the criteria to be applied.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many assaults on (a) staff and (b) other young people and incidents involving (i) staff and (ii) other young people were recorded in young people's residential units in each year from 1999-2000 to 2002-03, in total and broken down by residential unit.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what publicity has been given to the Pass Plus scheme in each of the last five years.
Answer
The Pass Plus scheme has beendeveloped by the Driving Standards Agency (DSA), which chairs a board that promotesthe scheme throughout Great Britain.
The Pass Plus scheme providesa structured course of post-test training for newly-qualified drivers, and thosewho complete the course can benefit from discounted insurance rates from participatinginsurance companies. Pass Plus courses are provided by Approved Driving Instructors,registered by DSA, and the scheme is administered by the agency, with support fromthe motor insurance industry.
Publicity for the scheme is carriedout in a number of ways. The scheme is promoted in a DSA leaflet which is sent outwith the 800,000 provisional driving licences which are issued annually. The benefitsof the Pass Plus scheme are covered in DSA鈥檚 Arrive Alive Road Safety Programmefor young people. The scheme is promoted in DSA鈥檚 Drive On magazine, a copyof which is handed to successful driving test candidates by their examiner. Thereis also a dedicated Pass Plus website, and local Road Safety Officers are encouragedto promote the scheme. Some of the insurance companies involved in the scheme havetaken their own steps to promote the benefits of Pass Plus.
The table gives the number ofdrivers completing the course in Great Britain in each of the last five years.
| 1998-99 | 19,685 |
| 1999-2000 | 25,920 |
| 2000-01 | 40,668 |
| 2001-02 | 56,203 |
| 2002-03 | 70,084 |
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- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has under its road safety responsibilities on the number of new car drivers in the 17 to 20 age range there have been in each of the last five years.
Answer
The table gives the numberof full driving licences that commenced between 1997 and the end of May 2002where the driver was aged between 17 and 20 years old and resided in Scotland.
| Age when Licence Commenced | Commencement of Licence |
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 (to 31 May) | Total |
| 17 | 17,165 | 12,305 | 9,533 | 9,385 | 9,153 | 3,631 | 61,172 |
| 18 | 7,002 | 5,859 | 7,432 | 8,801 | 8,232 | 2,817 | 40,143 |
| 19 | 3,074 | 2,741 | 3,425 | 5,350 | 5,825 | 2,184 | 22,599 |
| 20 | 2,283 | 1,805 | 2,212 | 3,301 | 3,857 | 1,418 | 14,876 |
| Total | 29,524 | 22,710 | 22,602 | 26,837 | 27,067 | 10,050 | 138,790 |
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- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive who reviews the positioning of fixed speed cameras and how often such reviews take place.
Answer
Each local Safety Camera Partnershipis responsible for reviewing its use of fixed and mobile speed cameras, within therules of the Scottish Safety Camera programme. The monitoring process is continuous,but it is formalised on an annual basis during the preparation of the partnership鈥檚operational case for the year ahead.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what publicity has been given to the Arrive Alive Scheme in each of the last five years.
Answer
The Arrive Alive Road SafetyProgramme was launched in 1997 by the Driving Standards Agency (DSA). The programmeinvolves driving examiners visiting schools and colleges, and other organisationsconnected with the 16- to 19-year age group, and delivering road safety information.Every member of the audience at a presentation is issued with an information bookletabout the programme, and comprehensive folders are sent to any organisation thatexpresses an interest in hosting a presentation. There is a dedicated Arrive Alivewebsite and the DSA also regularly issues press releases about the programme andplaces articles in its
Despatch magazine for the driver training industryand others with an interest in road safety.
In the last five years, the numberof presentations throughout Great Britain has increased substantially as shown in the table.
| 1998-99 | 300 |
| 1999-2000 | 880 |
| 2000-01 | 1,709 |
| 2001-02 | 2,726 |
| 2002-03 | 4,253 |
| 2003-04 (planned) | 6,000 |
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