Breakdown of employers direct costs Queensferry Crossing project: FOI release

Information requested

Itemised account, breaking-down "Employer's Direct Costs" for the Queensferry Crossing Project please, with rather more detail about why and what the varying amounts of money were spent on, for each year.

Response

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Employer’s Direct Costs	To 2011	2011- 2012	2012- 2013	2013- 2014	2014- 2015	2015- 2016	2016- 2017	2017- 2018	2018- 2019	2019- 2020
	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m
Staff and consultancy costs	55	11	12	10	10	10	9	7	7	2
PR/Comms/Publicity Costs	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
Legal Commercial and Insurance Fees	3	6	5	5	5	-	-	1	-	-1
Surveys, Investigations, Testing	13	2	2	1	1	1	-	-	-	-
Equipment and Bridge Control Room	-	7	1	1	1	2	-	-	1	-
Statutory Undertakers	3	3	3	4	4	2	-	-	1	-
Land Costs	4	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	79	30	25	21	21	15	9	9	9	1

Staff and consultancy includes costs related to the Jacobs Arup Joint-Venture’s multi-disciplinary role as Transport Scotland’s technical advisor for the specimen design, procurement, development and project management of the project. Alongside this, the figure also includes sub-contractor costs for feasibility and concept design development, including pre-tender marine ground investigations and wind tunnel testing. An amount for Transport Scotland staff and administrative costs associated with the delivery of the project are also reflected in the figure.

Statutory undertakers perform functions in relation to utilities and the vast majority of costs under this category related to utility diversion works.

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