Question reference: S5W-18389
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 24 August 2018
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2018
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much (a) it and (b) each of its agencies spent on the reclamation, decontamination and other remediation of the land on which the Scottish Crime Campus is located, prior to the construction works being undertaken.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not have this information to the level requested.
The Scottish Government purchased a serviced site from Enterprise Lanarkshire (now Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire). The site had previously been de-contaminated by the enterprise company working in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, although it is likely that some residual contamination would have remained. It is not possible to extrapolate accurate figures on the costs associated with decontamination due to the difficulties in separating out reclamation, decontamination and redial works costs.
In addition. the Scottish Government did incur some pre-enabling costs to provide for sub-surface ground clearance on the Campus site, and for putting in place road and utilities infrastructure. Again, it is not possible to draw from this those costs that would have been purely remedial in nature.