The costs associated with the fifth Council of Economic Advisers meeting are as follows:
Costs of travel and accommodation:
Jim McColl:
Crawford Beveridge:
Professor Alexander Kemp:
Professor Andrew Hughes Hallett:
Flights: £3,186.60
Accommodation: £130.00
Professor Frances Ruane:
Flights: £310.10
Accommodation: £130.00
Professor John Kay:
Train: £131.70
Flight: £60.60
Accommodation: £130.00
Sir George Mathewson:
Lord Smith:
Made own travel arrangements. No cost to Scottish Government involved.
Professor Sir James Mirrlees:
Flights: £4,251.60
Accommodation: £130.00
Ms Frances Cairncross:
Flights: £135.50
Accommodation: £130.00
Professor Finn Kydland:
Flights: £7,894.64
Car: £189.00
Accommodation: £190.00
Please note that car travel was also arranged but cost cannot be broken down per Council member. The total for all car journeys is £4,167.39.
Travel details:
Jim McColl:
Car from RAF Lossiemouth to Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Duff House, Banff
Car from Duff House to Aberdeen Airport
No further travel arrangements made
Crawford Beveridge:
Car from [personal address], Edinburgh, to Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Duff House, Banff
Car from Duff House to [personal address], Edinburgh
No further travel arrangements made
Professor Alexander Kemp:
Car from Aberdeen Airport to Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Duff House, Banff
Car from Duff House to Cullen Bay Hotel
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Aberdeen Airport
No further travel arrangements made
Professor Andrew Hughes Hallett:
Flight from Washington DC to Frankfurt
Car from Aberdeen Airport to Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen to Duff House, Banff
Car from Duff House to Cullen Bay Hotel
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Edinburgh
Flight from Edinburgh Airport to Washington DC
No further travel arrangements made
Professor Frances Ruane:
Flight to Dublin to Aberdeen Airport
Car from Aberdeen Airport to Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Duff House, Banff
Car from Duff House to Cullen Bay Hotel
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Edinburgh Airport
Flight from Edinburgh to Dublin
No further travel arrangements made
Professor John Kay:
Train from London King's Cross to Aberdeen Station
Car from Aberdeen Station to Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Duff House, Banff
Car from Duff House to Cullen Bay Hotel
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Aberdeen Airport
Flight from Aberdeen Airport to London Heathrow
No further travel arrangements made
Sir George Mathewson:
Car from [personal address], Blairgowrie, to Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Duff House, Banff
Car from Duff House to [personal address], Blairgowrie
No further travel arrangements made
Lord Smith:
Professor Sir James Mirrlees:
Flight from Hong Kong to Aberdeen Airport (via Heathrow)
Car from Aberdeen Airport to Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Duff House, Banff
Car from Duff House to Cullen Bay Hotel
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Aberdeen Airport
Flight from Aberdeen Airport to Hong Kong (via Heathrow)
No further travel arrangements made
Ms Frances Cairncross:
Flight from Heathrow to Aberdeen Airport
Car from Aberdeen Airport to Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Duff House, Banff
Car from Duff House to Cullen Bay Hotel
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Aberdeen Airport
Flight from Aberdeen Airport to Heathrow
No further travel arrangements made
Professor Finn Kydland:
Flight from Los Angeles to Edinburgh Airport
Car from Edinburgh Airport to Cullen Bay Hotel, Cullen
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Duff House, Banff
Car from Duff House to Cullen Bay Hotel
Car from Cullen Bay Hotel to Aberdeen Airport
Car from Aberdeen Airport to Edinburgh Airport
Flight from Edinburgh Airport to Los Angeles
No further travel arrangements made
Costs of venue hire and catering:
Venue hire: None
Food and Beverages (lunch and dinner): £2,090.55
Hired staff: £992.52
Guidebooks at dinner: £40.00
Small items for the dinner: £471.00
Menus for lunch and dinner:
Lunch:
Dinner (at Duff House):
Jerusalem artichoke veloute served with warm bread
Three types of local seafood - provided free by a local supplier
Fillet of Aberdeen Angus beef served with a red wine jus
Fondant potato
Seasonal vegetables
Selection of local cheeses and fruits
Homemade oatcakes and butter biscuits
Champagne and cranberry jellies with seasonal berries and shortbread fingers
Tea, coffee and homemade tablet
Wines: Pouilly-Fume 2006 Les Ferrees ; Reserve Rouge 2006 Cotes du Rhone ; Perrin et Fils
Liqueurs: Warre's Quinta do Cavadinha, 1996; Drambuie; Malt whisky
Invoices and other correspondence that relates to the organisation of this meeting, released on 06 September 2010, can be downloaded here.