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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S6W-24597

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 1 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to Hayfield Limited since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24598

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 1 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to Lochaber Sensory Care since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24672

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to equip ambulance crews with a video link to hospitals.

Question reference: S6W-24605

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 30 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Poverty Trust since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24609

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Emma Roddick on 30 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Scottish Refugee Council since 2019.

To support work with refugees, people seeking asylum and local communities, the Scottish Government provides funding to organisations such as the Scottish Refugee Council to ensure that all people seeking refugee protection in Scotland are welcome, where women, children and men are protected, find safety and support, have their human rights and dignity respected and are able to achieve their full potential.

The following table contains a list of funding and objectives provided to the SRC since 2019.

Funding	Objective
Annual funding to the previous non-statutory Scottish Guardianship Service 2018 to 2023	To fund guardians and deliver a core guardianship service to all separated children presenting independently in Scotland to the child-centred model of practice across the three domains of asylum, welfare and integration/social networks.
Equality, Connected Communities and Mainstreaming and Inclusion Budget Funding July 2019 to December 2023	A reduction in discrimination and hate crime and an increase in community participation and cohesion.
Housing Voluntary Grant Scheme 2019 to 2021	To deliver housing related projects.
Ending Homelessness Together 2020	To work in partnership to provide specialist case managers, advice, advocacy and legal diagnostic advice and representation for asylum seekers at risk of destitution in Glasgow.
New Scots refugee integration strategy intermediary/strategic funding 2021 to 2024	To support refugee integration in line with the New Scots strategy.
New Scots welcome video project December 2021 to March 2022	To produce a series of videos welcoming those recently arrived in Scotland from Afghanistan to be published on the SRC website.
Scottish Refugee Council COVID-19 focus groups 2021	Ensure the voices of young people whose families are within the asylum process are included in focus groups around COVID Recovery.
Third Sector Homelessness Fund 2021 to 2023	Delivery of Ending Homelessness for New Scots.
NRPF National Advocacy Service April 2022 to March 2024	Delivery of a diagnostic legal advice service to those subject to NRPF.
Connected Communities Budget Funding – Engagement with Afghan women 2022	To support community resilience in which diversity is understood and valued, people have stronger connections and are more respectful and inclusive.
Warm Scottish Welcome Scheme, Ukraine Support 2022 to 2023	To expand the Grantee’s core Refugee Integration Service for both the Ukraine Family Scheme and the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme (Homes for Ukraine), including where the Scottish Government acts as super sponsor.
Warm Scottish Welcome Scheme, Ukraine Support 2023 to 2024	Provide support to displaced people from Ukraine, expand community capacity and work with practitioners and decision makers to inform the policy agenda.

Question reference: S6W-24600

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 30 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Nairn Trust since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24602

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to Allergy UK, formally the British Allergy Foundation, since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24604

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 29 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to Borders Hospital Radio Service since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24601

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to MND Scotland since 2019.

The Scottish Government awarded £11,698 to MND Scotland in July 2019. The funding was to support the core staffing, volunteer and training costs of MND Scotland staff operating the charity’s Scottish Communication Aid Loan Service. The funding aimed to support the provision of timely access throughout Scotland for people with MND who require specialised Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) services.

The Scottish Government’s Chief Scientist Office provided a total of £83,495 to MND Scotland towards co-funding a three-year Clinical Academic Fellowship undertaken between 2019-20 and 2021-22 at the University of Edinburgh. The following sums were paid:

Amount	Date	Purpose
£26,784	October 2021	Clinical Academic Fellowship - Year 1 2019-2020
£28,760	October 2021	Clinical Academic Fellowship - Year 2 2020-2021
£27,950	October 2023	Clinical Academic Fellowship – Year 3 2021-22

The Clinical Academic Fellowship comprised a PhD research project to better understand the pathogenesis of disease progression in sporadic MND. The objective was to investigate the molecular pathology of sporadic MND cases, stratified by disease duration, in order to identify candidate genes and pathways associated with neuroresilience and longer survival.

Question reference: S6W-24608

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 26 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to Lesmahagow Parish Historical Association since 2019.