Written Question · S1W-28388 · Session 1
Whether it will state the (a) person responsible for payment of non-domestic rates, (b) total cost to the public body of non-domestic rates…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will state the (a) person responsible for payment of non-domestic rates, (b) total cost to the public body of non-domestic rates paid by it for the project over the project's life to date, (c) cost to the public body of paying non-domestic rates in each of the last three financial years and (d) expected cost to the public body of paying non-domestic rates in 2002-03 for each of the following private finance initiative/public private partnership projects, (1) Stirling Further Education Centre, (2) North Ayrshire College, Kilwinning, (3) Livingston Further Education Centre, (4) Larkfield geriatric assessment facility, (5) Cumnock Community Hospital, (6) provision of 90 elderly mental illness care beds for Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board, (7) provision of 60 frail elderly and 30 elderly mental illness care beds for Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board, (8) day surgery and maternity unit for Dumfries and Galloway Acute & Maternity Hospitals NHS Trust, (9) Kincardine Community Hospital, (10) provision of 25 beds for the mentally ill at Spynie Hospital, (11) provision of 120 elderly care beds at Ruchill Hospital, (12) provision of 120 elderly care beds at Shettleston Hospital, (13) provision of 180 elderly care beds at Rutherglen Hospital, (14) provision of 120 elderly care bed at Darnley Hospital, (15) Inverness Psychiatric Unit, (16) Wishaw General Hospital, (17) Hairmyres Hospital, (18) provision of 40 elderly care beds in Cumbernauld, (19) provision of 60 elderly with dementia care beds in Cumbernauld, (20) provision of 90 elderly care beds at Bellshill Hospital, (21) clinical waste disposal in Lothian, (22) Ferryfield House, (23) provision of 60 elderly care beds at Ellen's Glen House, (24) New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Phases 1 and 2, (25) clinical waste disposal in northern NHS trusts (Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles), (26) Mearnskirk Hospital geriatric beds, (27) Dundee Ninewells Hospital psychiatric services, (28) clinical waste disposal for Lothian and Forth Valley NHS boards, (29) SGH geriatric medicine and assessment facility for South Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, (30) multi-storey carpark/carparking facilities for Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust, (31) Tippethill Hospital, (32) care of the elderly services for West Lothian NHS Trust, (33) Baldovie waste to energy plant, (34) Falkirk schools, (35) Project 2002 (Glasgow Schools Project), (36) office accommodation for Perth and Kinross Council, (37) Balfron School, (38) Inverness Airport Terminal, (39) M6 design, build, finance, operate, (40) Skye Bridge, (41) HM Prison Kilmarnock, (42) Almond Valley and Seafield sewage scheme, (43) Esk Valley purification scheme, (44) Inverness main drainage and Fort William sewage treatment, (45) Findlay House for Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust, (46) Aberdeenshire schools project, (47) Argyll and Bute waste management project, (48) Mearns Primary and St Ninian's High School, (49) Fife schools, (50) Highland schools project, (51) Edinburgh schools project, (52) West Lothian schools project, (53) Police Force Training Centre, East Kilbride, (54) Levenmouth purification scheme, (55) Moray coast wastewater project, (56) Aberdeen, Stonehaven, Fraserburgh and Peterhead sewage and sludge treatment, (57) Tay wastewater project and Dundee, Carnoustie and Arbroath wastewater treatment, (58) Dalmuir sewage treatment, provision of secondary treatment, (59) Daldowie and Shieldhall sludge treatment centres and (60) Meadowhead (Irvine), Ayr, Stevenston and Inverclyde sewage treatment.
The answer
Rates are not payable on the M6 DBFO and Skye Bridge. The information requested in respect of the other projects is not held centrally and could only be gathered at disproportionate cost.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-28388 by reference.