Transport Scotland - costs of maintenance and repair of the Connel Bridge on the A828: EIR release
- Published
- 16 January 2025
- Topic
- Public sector, Transport
- FOI reference
- FOI/202400440416
- Date received
- 12 November 2024
- Date responded
- 4 December 2024
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
"The total amount that Transport Scotland has spent on the maintenance and repair of the Connel Bridge on the A828, broken down into a table to reflect every financial year since 2013-14."
We have assumed your request contained a typo and should be for every financial year since 2013-14.
Response
As the information you have requested is 'environmental information' for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
Response to your request
Please see the following table for details of spend we hold for the maintenance and repair of Connel Bridge on the A828 trunk road.
These figures include all costs associated with maintenance and repair including investigation, design and environmental surveys. The figures provided do not include for inspections, cyclic maintenance or
winter maintenance on the bridge since these are included in lump sum payments for the whole North West trunk road unit and cannot be individually identified.
Financial Year |
Spend |
2013/14 |
£0 |
2014/15 |
£10,071.23 |
2015/16 |
£145,482.11 |
2016/17 |
£42,300.53 |
2017/18 |
£120,126.19 |
2018/19 |
£169,196.94 |
2019/20 |
£1,219,025.65 |
2020/21 |
£2,377,810.01 |
2021/22 |
£1,852,490.85 |
2022/23 |
£3,266,004.02 |
2023/24 |
£1,200,863.32 |
2024/25 |
£79,001.14 |
Total |
£10,482,371.99 |
*The figures provided for 2024/25 are up to the end of October 2024
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