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Scottish Executive: an Overview of the Performance of Transport in Scotland Scottish Executive: an overview of the performance of transport in Scotland Prepared for the Auditor General for Scotland September 2006 Auditor General for Scotland The Auditor General for Scotland is the Parliament’s watchdog for ensuring propriety and value for money in the spending of public funds. He is responsible for investigating whether public spending bodies achieve the best possible value for money and adhere to the highest standards of financial management. He is independent and not subject to the control of any member of the Scottish Executive or the Parliament. The Auditor General is responsible for securing the audit of the Scottish Executive and most other public sector bodies except local authorities and fire and police boards. The following bodies fall within the remit of the Auditor General: • departments of the Scottish Executive eg, the Health Department • executive agencies eg, the Prison Service, Historic Scotland • NHS boards • further education colleges • Scottish Water • NDPBs and others eg, Scottish Enterprise. Audit Scotland is a statutory body set up in April 2000 under the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000. It provides services to the Auditor General for Scotland and the Accounts Commission. Together they ensure that the Scottish Executive and public sector bodies in Scotland are held to account for the proper, efficient and effective use of public funds. 1 Contents Summary The condition of local authority roads Part 5: Protecting the environment Page 2 is variable and around £1.5 billion and improving health through may be needed to bring them up to more sustainable transport Part 1: How transport in Scotland standard is organised and funded Page 18 The increase in travel has increased transport’s contribution to The Scottish Executive is responsible The Executive is on course to greenhouse gas emissions for overall transport policy: it relies achieve targets to increase the on a wide range of bodies for its numbers of rail passengers Air quality in Scotland is generally delivery good but there are hot spots of Page 6 Transport infrastructure investment poorer quality is costly and project costs can be Page 34 Spending on transport in Scotland difficult to forecast accurately is expected to more than double Page 20 The Department is taking steps to between 2002/03 and 2007/08 reduce traffic emissions through a Page 9 The Air Route Development Fund range of measures has helped to launch over 40 new air Page 36 Part 2: Scottish Executive routes from Scotland transport objectives and Page 24 Part 6: Improving the safety of performance measurement journeys Part 4: Promoting social inclusion The Executive has established a clear by improving access to public Road casualty reduction targets have vision and objectives for transport transport been achieved ahead of schedule which are interlinked Page 10 Support for bus services has Action is being taken to develop contributed to their increased usage safer roads The Executive has developed Page 26 Page 42 a series of measures to assess performance against its objectives A new national concessionary travel Significant effort is directed towards Page 11 scheme has proved popular but its improving road safety awareness use will require careful monitoring Page 45 Part 3: Promoting economic Page 27 growth by investing in transport Appendix 1. 2003 Partnership The Executive has targeted funding Agreement transport Road traffic congestion is largely at the specific transport problems commitments a localised problem but efforts to faced by people in rural areas Page 46 reduce it through stabilising traffic Page 28 growth are unlikely to succeed Appendix 2. Review of transport Page 14 There has been increased use of appraisal methods travel information services funded by Page 48 There has been mixed progress the Department against targets to reduce the Page 31 Appendix 3. Major projects – cost proportion of trunk roads requiring and timescale estimates close monitoring and around £325 Page 50 million may be needed to bring the network up to standard Page 17 2 Summary The Executive has performed well against most of its transport targets but some do not provide a full picture of whether objectives are being achieved. Summary 3 Introduction our cities and trunk roads. Pollution • Part 4 looks at what the from transport leads to serious Executive is doing to promote 1. This report provides an overview environmental and health problems. social inclusion by improving of the performance of transport in Transport accidents are responsible access to public transport. Scotland. It is the first of its kind to for a large number of fatalities each look at an area of Scottish Executive year, and the higher use of motorised • Part 5 reviews the impact of policy in the round. As such, it is transport has led to a decline in transport on the environment intended to contribute towards the health-improving activities such as and what the Executive is doing development of public performance walking and cycling. to protect the environment and reporting. Audit Scotland, with input improve health through more from the Scottish Executive, intends 4. The Executive’s vision for sustainable transport. to review the lessons learned from transport2 is: this pilot to determine how similar • Part 6 looks at the Executive’s exercises on other policy areas may ‘An accessible Scotland with safe, progress in promoting road safety be developed in the future. Although integrated and reliable transport and reducing accidents. the report focuses on the Scottish that supports economic growth, Executive (the Executive),1 most provides opportunities for all and is Key findings transport activity is delivered by third easy to use; a transport system that parties with financial support from meets everyone’s needs, respects Organisation, objectives and the Executive. Where appropriate, our environment and contributes performance measurement therefore, we also refer to the to health; services recognised 6. The Scottish Executive Enterprise, activities and performance of other internationally for quality, technology Transport and Lifelong Learning organisations in delivering transport and innovation, and for effective Department (the Department) infrastructure and services. and well-maintained networks; has overall responsibility for a culture where fewer short devolved transport matters within 2. Transport is an area of topical, journeys are made by car, where the Executive, but it relies on a public and parliamentary importance. we favour public transport, walking wide variety of public and private The Executive’s expenditure on and cycling because they are safe organisations to deliver transport transport amounted to £1.5 billion in and sustainable, where transport infrastructure and services. The 2005/06 and it is expected to rise to providers and planners respond to remit of its new executive agency, £2.3 billion in 2007/08. Our transport the changing needs of businesses, Transport Scotland, established in system can help facilitate economic communities and users, and where January 2006, is to oversee delivery growth by allowing people to get one ticket will get you anywhere.’ of the Executive’s major transport to work and by ensuring the swift commitments and to implement transport of goods to market. It can 5. This report looks at progress parts of a National Transport Strategy also help promote social inclusion by towards this vision. The report is for Scotland which is expected to be allowing people to access schools, organised into six parts: published toward the end of 2006. shops and services and take part in Local authorities are required to social and leisure activities. • Part 1 briefly outlines how work together in newly established transport in Scotland is organised Regional Transport Partnerships 3. But the provision of transport and funded. (RTPs), which have a key role to infrastructure also brings with it risks develop regional transport strategies and problems. In 2005, there were • Part 2 looks at the Executive’s by April 2007 which complement the 32 per cent more cars on Scotland’s transport objectives and how it National Transport Strategy. roads than ten years earlier, and the measures performance against latest forecasts estimate that traffic these objectives. 7. The Executive has established will grow by 27 per cent between clear objectives for transport and 2004 and 2021. More traffic means • Part 3 examines the Executive’s developed a range of performance more congestion, slowing down contribution to economic growth measures to monitor progress by investing in transport. against these objectives. The 1 Throughout this report, the Scottish Executive is referred to when discussing transport policies or objectives. The Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department (ETLLD) is referred to when discussing transport funding or monitoring of performance. 2 Scotland’s Transport Future: the Transport White Paper, Scottish Executive, June 2004. 4 Executive published transport is required to bring the trunk road of new technology to reduce the objectives and targets in both the network up to an acceptable standard opportunity for fraud and irregularity 2002 and 2004 Spending Reviews. (defined in the Design Manual for has been delayed until the end The achievement of national targets, Roads and Bridges as being above the of 2007. such as increasing the number of threshold requiring close monitoring). local bus passenger journeys, may Local authorities are
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