Question reference: S5W-01335
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for Argyll and Bute, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 8 July 2016
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 5 August 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will instruct Transport Scotland to collect data from 1 August 2016 for a period of 12 months on (a) unsuccessful attempts to book vehicles on CalMac Ferries to Islay, Coll, Tiree, Colonsay and Mull and the reasons; (b) cancellations of sailings on these routes and the reasons for such cancellations, (c) space on each sailing on these routes pre-booked by hauliers or other regular major users and not taken up and (d) utilisation of such space by unbooked or weight-listed vehicles and any such space left unfilled at the time of sailing.
Answer
CalMac Ferries Limited, as the current operator of the Clyde & Hebrides Ferry Services collect a range of data to forecast and evaluate demand on all the services they provide. Much of this data is, however, commercially confidential. Evaluation reports of the impact of the Road Equivalent Tariff pilots have been published on the Transport Scotland website. Transport Scotland will continue to monitor the impact of the network-wide roll out of Road Equivalent Tariff in October 2015 and discuss this with the operator.