- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 14 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Minister for Public Finance's reported statement on BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show on 3 November 2024 that the Barnett consequential funding from the recent UK Budget is actually worth an extra £300 million for the 2025-26 Scottish Budget, what calculations it made for the minister to arrive at this conclusion.
Answer
The total Resource (RDEL) Block Grant funding received by the Scottish Government (SG) in 2024-25 is currently £39.8 billion. For 2025-26 the Spending Review confirms a resource block grant of £41.1 billion, £1.3 billion higher than 2024-25.
The following table shows the real terms calculations.
| £billions | £billions |
| 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
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RDEL (excluding depreciation) | 39.8 | 41.1 |
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GDP Deflator | 1.000 | 1.024 |
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Real Terms Calculation | 39.8 | 40.1 |
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Increase | - | 0.3 |
RDEL figures are as provided by HM Treasury.
GDP deflators taken from OBR publication on the day of the UK Budget.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 20 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish Scotland's tax strategy.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 20 November 2024
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 13 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether any impact assessment of the reported increase in GP facility management costs has been conducted, and, if so, whether the results of any such assessment will be published.
Answer
NHS boards are responsible for managing their estates and agreeing terms for facilities management costs with their tenants. It would be for NHS Lothian and other boards to carry out any necessary impact assessment of the reported increase in facility management costs for their GP practices and determine publication.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 13 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to mitigate any long-term effects of the reported increase to GP facility management costs in NHS boards, including NHS Lothian, and, if so, how it plans to do so.
Answer
Phase Two of the 2018 GMS Contract will change the way that practice expenses are allocated, with direct reimbursement of costs. Scottish Government is discussing GP facility management costs with the BMA as part of this work.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 13 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many GPs have made formal representations regarding reported facility management cost increases by NHS boards.
Answer
GPs have raised their concerns about reported facility management cost increases by NHS Lothian directly with the Scottish Government and through their elective and professional representatives. As many of the representations received have been on behalf of multiple GPs and their practices, the Scottish Government does not have a count of how many individual GPs have made representations.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 September 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 27 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how much has been spent on work on the National Care Service to date.
Answer
From 2021-22 through to the end of period 5 in 2024-25 a total of £28,730,224 has been spent on work related to the National Care Service.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 September 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 27 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been spent on preparations for the National Care Service in each of the last 24 months, and how much it estimates the cost of operating the National Care Service will be in each of the next 12 months.
Answer
| Costs Incurred |
| M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 | M6 | M7 | M8 | M9 | M10 | M11 | M12 | M13 Adj |
2022-23 | | | | | | £805,364 | £689,179 | £1,157,770 | £907,007 | £1,049,521 | £1,473,735 | £3,488,250 | £301,100 |
2023-24 | £935,454 | £504,272 | £778,303 | £985,823 | £887,496 | £698,055 | £1,440,000 | £773,891 | £661,354 | £1,212,611 | £576,330 | £1,126,617 | £163,990 |
2024-25 | £544,963 | £550,518 | £556,454 | £1,296,254 | £609,328 | | | | | | | | |
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| Forecast Costs |
| M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 | M6 | M7 | M8 | M9 | M10 | M11 | M12 | M13 Adj |
2024-25 | | | | | | £1,609,139 | £619,247 | £718,098 | £1,671,344 | £665,291 | £665,291 | £1,894,034 | £0 |
The tables above set out the costs incurred over the past 24 months and the forecast costs for the remainder of 2024-25. We are currently finalising the budget allocations for 2025-26 after which we will revise the forecast position.
The 'M13 adj' column relates to year end adjustments for items such as accruals.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 3 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with senior representatives from the Scottish hospitality industry.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 3 October 2024
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 24 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the budget provision to provide 100% rates relief for hospitality businesses on islands and specific remote locations; what consultation has taken place regarding the impact of applying this relief at that level, and what plans it has to maintain it.
Answer
The Scottish Fiscal Commission’s forecasts from December 2023 estimate the cost of Hospitality Relief for Islands and Specified Remote areas to be £4 million in 2024-25. An Island Communities Impact Assessment, published alongside the Non-Domestic Rates (Islands and Remote Areas Hospitality Relief) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 which deliver this relief, considers the impact of this relief.
Scottish Ministers have, and continue to have, regular engagement with representatives of the hospitality sector on non-domestic rates matters, including relief, through quarterly roundtables as well as the New Deal for Business Non-Domestic Rates sub-group which includes a task team considering the impact of non-domestic rates reliefs.
Decisions on non-domestic rates and reliefs for 2025-26 will be considered in the context of the Scottish Budget.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 September 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 18 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many full-time equivalent teachers there were in 2023-24.
Answer
Data on teacher numbers and characteristics are collected in the annual teacher census, conducted in September of each year.
Headline figures are published the following December as part of ‘Summary statistics for schools in Scotland’: https://www.gov.scot/collections/school-education-statistics/#summarystatisticsforschoolsinscotland