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Scottish Government does not hold information on fixed penalty notices issued by police for flytipping.

Scottish Government has given over £1.5 million supporting litter and flytipping reduction campaigns and projects across Scotland.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-32510 on 13 November 2020, which outlines behaviour change marketing campaigns supported by Scottish Government since 2014. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx '

Scottish Government has also supported the following campaign and projects:

• £4,000 to the Reusable Masks campaign which launched in 2020.
• £4,000 to the Upstream Battle campaign, which launched in 2018.
• £650,000 to the Clean Up Scotland campaign/project which ran between 2013 and 2016.
• £120,000 Contextual Messaging Toolkits to provide communications materials for anyone to use based on behavioural insights research

The Scottish Government has also provided £113,000 to support organisations to develop litter action plans since 2014.

The Scottish Government has been, and continues to be, committed to engaging with local authorities and other key partners on the issue of litter. An enforcement sub-group of the Litter Managers Network has been set up to focus on enforcement and to discuss successes and areas that may need to be changed moving forward. This group is attended by Scottish Government, local authorities and stakeholders across the enforcement chain.

This information is held at a local level by individual local authorities and each authority would need to be contacted to provide the details being requested.

On 18 March 2020, the Scottish Government announced that because of the Covid-19 crisis, the Scottish Government had paused work on preparing for an independence referendum this year.

However, the member will be interested to know that previous modelling by the Scottish Government, The Treasury, the OECD and other organisations all show substantial productivity losses from reduced foreign direct investment expected because of Brexit.

In addition the Scottish Government publication, Scotland’s Place in Europe: People, Jobs and Investment, noted that “There is strong evidence that EU membership has been associated with increased flows of FDI.”

This makes it all the more reckless that in the middle of a pandemic and economic recession the UK Government has refused to extend the Brexit transition period.

The Scottish National Investment Bank will operate commercially and seek a commercial return on its investments. How that is determined will vary depending on the circumstances of the investment the Bank is considering. The Bank will now be growing its investment portfolio and the Scottish Government will set a target rate of return once the Bank has a sufficient investment portfolio against which to measure its performance in this way.

As the UK’s first mission oriented Bank the Scottish Government expects to see the Bank deliver social, economic and environmental returns as well as financial returns in the investments that it makes.

A coalition of major drinks producers and trade bodies has confirmed to us its intention to apply for approval as a scheme administrator. Under the Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations 2020, Scottish Ministers have 28 days from receipt of an application to grant or refuse it. No application has been received at this point.

Dates the Scottish Government has met representatives of the aviation industry are included in the following table.

Behaviour change science is a very dynamic area of research and we are adopting a flexible, dynamic and collaborative approach as knowledge and insight develops. There has been increasing evidence within peer reviewed literature that more structured implementation of behaviour change science, beyond communication alone, is necessary to drive food waste prevention across the supply chain, and particularly with regards to consumers and citizens. In response to this, Zero Waste Scotland is regularly reviewing the latest literature, developing further in-house behavioural change strategy and expertise, conducting small scale pilots of behaviour change techniques, partnering in academic collaborations, and active knowledge exchange with Waste and Resources Action Plan (WRAP) and international colleagues on the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste .

As part of the EU Platform Zero Waste Scotland were part of the rapporteur team that developed Recommendations for Action in Food Waste Prevention , which highlights the behavioural change challenges and suggested action to address these. Further, specific behaviour change focused business support will be launched in late 2020 through the Food Waste Reduction Business Support Service.

As I stated in my answer to S5W-32552 the Scottish Government are in regular contact with the footballing authorities to discuss a range of issue.