Capital Projects

The amendment

As an amendment to motion S4M-05653 in the name of Gavin Brown (Capital Projects), leave out from “notes” to end and insert "notes that the UK Government has cut the Scottish Government’s capital budget by 26% in real terms over the UK spending review period and that the previous UK administration was planning an even tougher cash-terms cut of 43% in UK public sector net investment; welcomes the progress made since publication of the Infrastructure Investment Plan in December 2011, with nine major projects now operational and publication of an updated, transparent, pipeline of future Scottish Government investments to assist the construction industry with its forward planning; recognises that, despite the reduction in capital departmental expenditure limits (DEL) from the UK Government, the Scottish Government is on track to invest £3.1 billion this year, using innovative means to supplement capital budgets, including through the Non-Profit Distributing (NPD) programme and switching resource to capital; believes that time invested now in preparing NPD and hub projects for the market leads to improved value for money, and welcomes the progress on Inverness, Glasgow and Kilmarnock colleges and the M8, M73, and M74 motorway improvements, all of which start construction in 2013-14, along with a range of smaller community health and schools projects."

1. 20 Feb 2013
   Capital Projects

   S4M-05653.2
   Carried

   61 for, 54 against

1. S4M-05653.1
   Capital Projects

   Richard Baker Lab Lodged 19 Feb 2013
   Defeated

   52 for, 63 against

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1. 20 Feb 2013
   Capital Projects

   Nicola Sturgeon SNP Meeting of the Parliament

   The UK Government, of which Willie Rennie’s party seems to be a proud member, slashed this Government’s capital budget by 26 per cent. If Willie Rennie cannot understand the implications of that, I suggest that he go back to the drawing bo…
2. 20 Feb 2013
   Decision Time

   Tricia Marwick Meeting of the Parliament

   There are seven questions to be put as a result of today’s business. The first question is, that amendment S4M-05653.2, in the name of Nicola Sturgeon, which seeks to amend motion S4M-05653, in the name of Gavin Brown, on capital projects,…