§ Mr. WilsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if the prospective designers and operators of a Skye toll bridge have so far been required to consult any environmental bodies before submitting plans and costs.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe Skye bridge working group has already consulted the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland (RFACS) and is in touch also with the Countryside Commission for Scotland, the Nature Conservancy Council and the National Trust for Scotland. The views of these bodies will be conveyed to the three tenderers once they have been selected. The tenderers will be required to provide an environmental impact statement for each of their designs and, as usual, to give RFACS an opportunity to comment on their detailed designs before their tenders are formally submitted to the Scottish Development Department.