Fifth Meeting Costs

The costs associated with the fifth Council of Economic Advisers meeting are as follows:

Costs of travel and accommodation:

Jim McColl:

  • Accommodation: £130.00

Crawford Beveridge:

  • Accommodation: £65.00

Professor Alexander Kemp:

  • Accommodation: £130.00

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:

  • Accommodation: £95.00

Lord Smith:

Made own travel arrangements. No cost to Scottish Government involved.

  • Accommodation: £65.00

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:

  • Made own travel arrangements. Details not known.

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:

  • Open sandwiches
  • Selection of home baking
  • Tea/coffee/orange juice and water

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.

Page updated: Thursday, September 09, 2010