Costs and dates for MV Glen Sannox and MV Glen Rosa: FOI release

Information requested

1) Total cost per ferry as of today.

2) Overdue dates is of today.

3) Additional costs incurred eg leasing other vessels etc since their original enter service dates.

4) Total cost v original estimated costs.

5) Expected service entry dates.

6) Capacity revisions since original concept and other ancillary costs.

Response

1) Total cost per ferry as of today - Total forecasted costs and total spend to date.

Spend to Date:
MV Glen Sannox - (801) – £142,424,946
MV Glen Rosa (802) – £84,197,250
Forecasted:
Forecasted costs can be found here: Update to NZET Committee 26 Feb 2024 | Ferguson Marine

I thereby apply Section 25 of FOISA for Information Otherwise Accessible. If you cannot get access to the links provided, please respond to this letter and I will attach a paper copy.

2) Overdue dates as of today - How overdue from contract with FMEL?

Current forecasted delivery dates can be found by clicking on the links below:
MV Glen Sannox, (801) - Update to NZET Committee 2nd August 2024 | Ferguson Marine – May 2018 under FMEL contracts
MV Glen Rosa (802) - nzet-letter-19th-april-2024-fv.pdf (fergusonmarine.com) – August 2018 under FMEL contracts

I thereby apply Section 25 of FOISA for Information Otherwise Accessible. If you cannot get access to the links provided, please respond to this letter and I will attach a paper copy.

3) Additional costs incurred eg leasing other vessels etc since their original enter service dates (both FMEL and FMPG).

There have been no additional costs incurred by Transport Scotland as a consequence of the delay of MVs Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa, including leasing other vessels to cover the routes since the intended service dates.

4) Total cost v original estimated costs (both FMEL and FMPG).

Total Forecasted Cost for both vessels – £299.2m
Original Forecasted Cost for both vessels (FMPG) - £110m
Original Forecasted Costs for both vessels (FMEL) - £97m

5) Expected service entry dates.

The operational service dates are a matter for CalMac, I therefore apply Section 17 of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not hold this information (please see annex for more detail).

6) Capacity revisions since original concept and other ancillary costs.

Please find a link to information regarding the capacity revisions, which is published on the Scottish Parliament website.
hulls-801-802-carrying-capacity-28-february-2024.pdf (parliament.scot)

I thereby apply Section 25 of FOISA as for Information Otherwise Accessible. If you cannot get access to the links provided, please respond to this letter and I will attach a paper copy.

Scottish Government does not have a list of all ancillary costs as costs are not broken down in this way and I therefore apply section 17 of FOISA that the information is not held. For this information, I would recommend reaching out to Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) to enquire.

Annex

Section 17: Notice that information is not held

(1) Where –
(a) a Scottish public authority receives a request which would require it either –
(i) to comply with section 1(1); or
(ii) to determine any question arising by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b) of section 2(1), if it held the information to which the request relates; but
(b) the authority does not hold that information, it must, within the time allowed by or by virtue of section 10 for complying with the request, give the applicant notice in writing that it does not hold it.

Section 25 Information otherwise accessible

(1) Information which the requester can reasonably obtain other than by requesting it under section 1(1) is exempt information.
(2) For the purposes of subsection 1(1), information –
(a) may be reasonably obtainable even if payment is required for access to it;
(b) is to be taken to be reasonably obtainable if –
(i) the Scottish public authority which holds it, or any other person, is obliged by any enactment to communicate it (otherwise than by making it available for inspection) to; or
(ii) the Keeper of the Records of Scotland holds it and makes it available for inspection and (in so far as practicable) copying by, members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), information is to be taken to be reasonably obtainable if -
(a) it is available –
(i) on request from the Scottish public authority which holds it, and
(ii) in accordance with the authority’s publication scheme, and
(b) any associated payment required by the authority is specified in or determined under the scheme

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