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SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE Finance and Sustainable Growth

Thursday 17 December 2009 Meeting of the Parliament Questions 4 contributions · 2 speakers

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Charlie Gordon Lab Glasgow Cathcart
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To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-29023 by Stewart Stevenson on 3 December 2009, what payments are to be made to Network Rail for the Airdrie to Bathgate, Glasgow Airport rail link main line and Glasgow-Barrhead-Kilmarnock rail projects, broken down by instalments for each project. (S3O-8878)

John Swinney SNP The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth · North Tayside
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The question is one of a number of questions that would ordinarily have been answered by Stewart Stevenson, but the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change is in Copenhagen, so I will answer them on his behalf.

Average annual regulatory asset base repayments that are contained within the current determination payments to Network Rail are as follows: on the Airdrie to Bathgate project, £26 million; on the Glasgow airport rail link mainline project—which is designated as the Paisley corridor improvements—£16 million; and on the Glasgow-Barrhead-Kilmarnock project, £2 million.

Charlie Gordon Lab Glasgow Cathcart
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The written answer to the question that I mentioned referred without a hint of irony to the "GARL mainline" project, although the irony is that the branch link to the airport is proposed for cancellation. By what authority has the Scottish Government cancelled current-year expenditure on the GARL branch line to Glasgow airport, given that the project was approved by an act of Parliament and that the current spend was approved last year by the Parliament?

John Swinney SNP The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth · North Tayside
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The Government has taken decisions in the context of the budget that we have available, which gives a capability to spend to certain maximums under particular budget headings. If any change is to be made, it can be made either at the autumn budget revisions, which have now been approved by Parliament, or at the spring budget revisions, which have yet to be considered by Parliament.

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