Serco NorthLink Ferries refit timetable and MV Hamnavoe dry dock cover: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
(a) Information from all reports, correspondence and communications the Scottish Government and Transport Scotland holds relating to the 2022 refit timetable of Serco NorthLink Ferries, particularly the arrangements for the Pentland Firth route between Stromness and Scrabster.
(b) Information from all reports, correspondence and communication the Scottish Government and Transport Scotland holds relating to cover for the MV Hamnavoe while the ship is in dry dock in 2022.
(c) How much subsidy Serco NorthLink Ferries will receive for the Pentland Firth route between Stromness and Scrabster between January 31 and February 13? If a specific route breakdown is not possible, please include an overall total.
Response
I attach a copy of most of the information you requested.
(a) Information from all reports, correspondence and communications the Scottish Government and Transport Scotland holds relating to the 2022 refit timetable of Serco NorthLink Ferries, particularly the arrangements for the Pentland Firth route between Stromness and Scrabster.
Information is in the attached documents.
(b) Information from all reports, correspondence and communication the Scottish Government and Transport Scotland holds relating to cover for the MV Hamnavoe while the ship is in dry dock in 2022.
Information is in the attached documents.
(c) How much subsidy Serco NorthLink Ferries will receive for the Pentland Firth route between Stromness and Scrabster between January 31 and February 13? If a specific route breakdown is not possible, please include an overall total.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
We are unable to provide a subsidy amount for the specific period and specific route requested, however out with FOISA, during the financial year of 2021/2022 the monthly average subsidy for all routes included in the Northern Isles Ferry Service contract is £3,317,515.65.
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