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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: S6O-02503

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 September 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the 2021 SNP manifesto commitment to expand on the community link worker programme.

Question reference: S6W-20662

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 6 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on the development or disposal plan for the former Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital building in Glasgow.

Question reference: S6W-20512

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2023
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 6 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment to grow Scotland’s economy through the tech sector, for what reason it reportedly did not provide CodeClan with support.

Codeclan was a private sector enterprise and its financial stability was the sole responsibility of its management and board of directors.

The Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise worked intensively with CodeClan to explore every possible option to secure a sustainable future, including commissioning the support of private sector consultants.

Ministers are legally bound by subsidy control rules which set clear thresholds on the level of public funding that can be injected into private businesses. In this case the sum required to place the business on a stable footing significantly exceeded these thresholds, with no guarantee of future viability.

Question reference: S6W-20513

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2023
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 6 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what support will be given to the students who were unable to complete their studies due to the reported abrupt liquidation of CodeClan.

Question reference: S6W-20731

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 18 August 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 6 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many third sector partners are providing community link worker programmes within Health and Social Care Partnerships across Scotland in the current financial year, and what the names are of any such providers, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S6W-20718

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 August 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that peer support in relation to suicide prevention is accessible across Scotland.

Our new strategy takes a fresh approach to tackling the inequalities that lead to suicide. This is reflected in our key priorities for 2023-24 which include a commitment to support new peer support groups across Scotland; drawing on the extensive feedback and evidence we considered when developing our strategy.

We are providing funding of £389,150 to the Scottish Recovery Network over the next 3 years to continue its vital work to build peer support capacity across Scotland. The innovative Creating Hope With Peer Support project is developing and co-designing peer support training with a range of community based suicide prevention groups and services. Our aim is to enable high quality peer support to be provided across the country for those in crisis, contemplating suicide or who have been affected by suicide.

The training will be piloted in winter 2023-2024 and rolled out to other groups and services across the country when finalised, helping to increase the number and range of people who can access peer support.

Question reference: S6W-20717

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 August 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what funding is being provided to support action 5.3 of Creating Hope Together: Scotland’s Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2022-2025 to build new peer support capability.

Question reference: S6W-20715

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 August 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on action 5.11 of Creating Hope Together: Scotland’s Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2022-2025 to provide suicide bereavement support across Scotland, including how its implementation will be funded.

Question reference: S6W-20716

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 August 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what resources it is providing to support the implementation of recommendations made in the 2022 evaluation of year 1 of the pilot Suicide Bereavement Support Services.

We are working with key partners to implement the recommendations of the 2022 evaluation of the first-year of the Suicide Prevention Bereavement Support Services. This showed how well the service meets the needs of family members, whilst also flagging a number of operational aspects (such as support for staff and young people) where further work would be helpful in order to inform roll out planning.

We are therefore investing a further £255,000 in 2023-24 to extend the pilot Suicide Bereavement Support Service until March 2024. This ensures continuity of service and we will use this time to gather further evidence about its impact. The final independent evaluation report is due to be published in early 2024. This will inform subsequent roll out of support for families bereaved by suicide across Scotland.

This forms part of our ambitious work on suicide prevention, which is underpinned by significant investment of £2.5m in 2023-24, and a Programme for Government commitment to double suicide prevention annual funding to £2.8 m by 2026.

Question reference: S6W-20499

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2023
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government when it will introduce priority bus lanes on the national trunk road network around Greater Glasgow, which was first proposed in its 2019 Programme for Government.

The second Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2) was published in December 2022, which marked the completion of over 3 years of detailed technical appraisal. It will inform the Scottish Government’s transport investment programme over the next 20 years and will help to deliver the vision, priorities and outcomes set out in the National Transport Strategy.

Recommendation 14 of the STPR2 advises that bus priority interventions are implemented within Scotland’s cities and towns where congestion is highest. In the case of the motorway network around Glasgow, Transport Scotland will continue to progress plans for the M8, M77 and M80, considering actively managed hard shoulders for buses like those already operating on the M90/M9 Queensferry Corridor and on the M8 eastbound approach to Hermiston Gait.

The STPR2 Delivery Plan is in development and will provide further insight on the programming of the recommendations including those interventions detailed in recommendation 14.