Questions and answers

Question reference: S5O-02617

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 28 November 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether aid from its Humanitarian Emergency Fund provided to people living in Hudaydah, Yemen, has been able to reach civilians caught within zones of fighting.

The Scottish Government’s Humanitarian Emergency Fund awarded Mercy Corps £100,000 to provide timely and dignified access to clean water services for 6,000 conflict-affected families in Yemen.

Mercy Corps updated us that the families who had been assisted and settled in Al-Durayhimi District, Hudaydah Governorate were forced to flee again, to neighbouring districts where Mercy Corps again provided them with clean drinking water. An estimated 3,000 families were forced to flee for a third time to another neighbouring district due to a renewed military offensive, where Mercy Corps again provided clean drinking water.

Question reference: S5F-02805

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 November 2018

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to reports that there have been more than 500 nuclear safety events at Faslane since 2006.

Question reference: S5O-02592

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 November 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings of the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, following his two-week inquiry into rising levels of poverty and the consequences of austerity measures.

Question reference: S5O-02534

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 November 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on next month's completion of the roll-out of Universal Credit full service.

Question reference: S5O-02501

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 November 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to encourage local sourcing across public sector catering.

Question reference: S5O-02447

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 4 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how it is collaborating with third sector organisations and other partners to tackle food insecurity.

No one should be hungry in a country as prosperous as Scotland. The Scottish Government are working with a number of third sector organisations and other partners to respond to and tackle the root causes of food insecurity.

In our Programme for Government, we committed to increasing our Fair Food Fund from £1.5 to £3.5 million in 2019-20. This Fund currently supports 34 community food organisations, including 13 food banks to develop dignified and rights-based responses to food insecurity.

In addition to this, our £20 million Empowering Communities Fund comprises a number of targeted funds and programmes that support community-led Regeneration, including projects that tackle food insecurity.

Question reference: S5W-18652

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 20 September 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much music tourism has contributed to the economy in each of the last five years.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

UK Music Trust conducts an annual survey of the contribution of live music to the UK economy, including Scotland, in its “Wish you were here” survey. Surveys have been carried out from 2013-2017. Surveys are available through its website at https://www.ukmusic.org/ .

Information held by VisitScotland for music tourists from outside Scotland to events which it has sponsored shows provides the following figures in each of the last financial years:

Financial Year	Net economic return from outside Scotland (£m)
2013-14	17.8
2014-15	32.1
2015-16	13.6
2016-17	7.0
2017-18	7.4

Question reference: S5W-18665

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 19 September 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what the total attendance at music events in Glasgow has been in the last year.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

UK Music conducts an annual survey of the contribution of live music to the UK economy, including Scotland, in its “Wish you were here” survey. Surveys have been carried out from 2013-2017. Surveys to 2016 include specific information on live music in Glasgow. Surveys are available through its website at https://www.ukmusic.org/ .

Information held by VisitScotland for events which it has sponsored in Glasgow shows that in the financial year 2017-18 there were 67,627 attendances at music events in Glasgow. This does not include attendances at Celtic Connections.

Question reference: S5W-18666

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 19 September 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much has been generated from music tourists in Glasgow in the last year.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

UK Music conducts an annual survey of the contribution of live music to the UK economy, including Scotland, in its “Wish you were here” survey. Surveys have been carried out from 2013-2017. Surveys to 2016 include specific information on live music in Glasgow. Surveys are available through its website at https://www.ukmusic.org/ .

The research report “Growing the Value for Music Tourism in Glasgow suggests that for 2015 the total value contributed by live music attendance in Glasgow is £159.7 million. The report, conducted and written by Dougal Perman, Tim Wright and Fay Young, with contributions and support from the collaborative research team and Glasgow’s music industry, is available at http://www.innerear.co.uk/consultancy-and-research/growing-value-music-tourism-glasgow/ .

Information from VisitScotland for events which it has sponsored in Glasgow in the financial year 2017-18 shows there was a net economic return from outside Scotland of £6.1 million generated by music tourists in Glasgow. A music tourist is a person who has taken part in a music element to their trip, such as a music gig, concert or festival. That activity could be part of a longer holiday or could be the sole purpose of the trip.

Question reference: S5W-17045

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how the Scottish Government is celebrating 150 years of the TUC.

I attended the TUC’s 150 th Anniversary reception at Westminster on 6 June 2018 to celebrate their longstanding commitment to protecting the rights of workers and improving workplace relations.

The Scottish Government's support for the trade union movement in Scotland is demonstrated through funding to the STUC of £2.2 million for Scottish Union Learning and £350,000 for the Trade Union Fair Work and Modernisation Fund and the Leadership and Equality Programme.

We will do all that we can to oppose UK Government policy, such as the Trade Union Act, that continues to threaten the role of trade unions.

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