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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-10999

Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 27 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has verified the process used by Circularity Scotland to calculate producer fees for the proposed Deposit Return Scheme.

Question reference: S6W-10979

Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 27 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding is specifically allocated as contingencies for any additional spending not anticipated by Social Security Scotland in current budget lines.

Question reference: S6W-10996

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 27 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what measures it will take in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023 to support the social enterprise sector.

The Scottish Government’s Social Enterprise Strategy was launched in 2016 and sets out a wide-ranging, ambitious and long-term programme to develop the potential of Scotland's social enterprise sector.

The latest Social Enterprise Action Plan was published on 24th March 2021 and covers the period 2021-24 and is available at: Social enterprise: action plan - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

In 2021-22 we spent over £7M in supporting social enterprise and expect to spend over £6M in 2022-23. £15M was distributed through COVID support funds in 2021-22.

Funding is provided to third sector organisations, including social enterprises, from across Scottish Government portfolios and is not collated centrally.

Question reference: S6W-10745

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 27 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many times ministers have called in planning applications from planning committees in each of the last 10 years.

Information on committee processes in relation to individual planning applications which are called in by Scottish Ministers is not recorded centrally. The figures below are the collective total of applications called in by Scottish Ministers per year from 2012 to date. This includes cases called in at points before, during and after consideration by a council committee, and also those where the council’s consideration had been delegated to planning officials.

Year

All called-in cases

Question reference: S6W-10796

Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 27 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds regarding the value of each local authority's reserves in real terms in 2022-23, and how this compares with the equivalent value in 2006-07.

The information regarding the value of each local authority's reserves in real terms in 2022-23, and how this compares with the equivalent value in 2006-07 is set out in the following table.

LOCAL AUTHORITY RESERVES

	2006-07 Real Terms	2022-23 Real Terms	2006-23 Change Real Terms	2006-23 Change Real Terms
Local Authority	£m	£m	£m	%
Aberdeen City	19.9	66.8	46.8	235.1
Aberdeenshire	23.7	76.7	52.9	223.0
Angus	22.2	41.2	19.0	85.9
Argyll & Bute	33.9	73.0	39.1	115.3
Clackmannanshire	4.3	12.9	8.5	196.9
Dumfries & Galloway	39.5	79.8	40.3	101.9
Dundee City	11.4	39.3	28.0	246.6
East Ayrshire	27.7	49.9	22.1	79.8
East Dunbartonshire	9.2	22.7	13.4	145.1
East Lothian	7.7	18.4	10.7	138.4
East Renfrewshire	9.5	45.3	35.9	379.1
Edinburgh, City of	25.9	173.1	147.1	567.0
Eilean Siar	13.8	19.4	5.6	40.4
Falkirk	24.5	37.8	13.3	54.2
Fife	12.9	141.6	128.7	999.8
Glasgow City	16.0	114.7	98.7	616.2
Highland	40.6	57.5	17.0	41.8
Inverclyde	23.5	29.4	5.9	25.1
Midlothian	13.2	11.5	-1.7	-12.7
Moray	16.2	32.1	15.9	98.6
North Ayrshire	14.3	65.4	51.1	356.8
North Lanarkshire	21.9	123.5	101.6	463.7
Orkney	22.4	28.2	5.8	26.1
Perth & Kinross	38.8	46.1	7.3	18.9
Renfrewshire	28.1	78.4	50.3	179.4
Scottish Borders	19.5	41.0	21.5	110.5
Shetland	0.0	189.5	189.5	N/A
South Ayrshire	-0.7	18.3	19.0	N/A
South Lanarkshire	5.2	71.1	65.9	1271.4
Stirling	9.0	45.6	36.6	407.9
West Dunbartonshire	4.2	12.6	8.4	202.3
West Lothian	5.8	20.5	14.7	255.0
Scotland	564.1	1883.2	1319.1	233.9

NOTES:
1. Local Authority General Fund Reserves for 2006-07 and 2022-23
2. Source: LFR 00 for final, audited 2006-07 figures;
POBE 2022 2022-23 budget estimate figures
3. The Real Terms figures were calculated using the HM Treasury GDP Deflators
dated 23 March 2022.

Question reference: S6W-10816

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much Transport Scotland has spent on new road signage in the Highlands and Islands region in each year since 2007.

The following table details annual spend on signage on the trunk road network during the period 2013 to 2022 within the Scottish Parliament Highland and Islands electoral region. These figures include spend on sign plates, sign poles and sign bases.

Signage on Local Authority roads is a matter for the relevant Local Authority.

We do not hold the spend data for these specific items prior to 2013.

Year	Spend
2013	£1,136,941.65
2014	£836,728.49
2015	£469,343.06
2016	£479,855.57
2017	£452,160.24
2018	£301,278.65
2019	£185,692.03
2020	£119,018.18
2021	£66,415.05
2022 (to date)	£12,168.88
Total	£4,059,601.80

Question reference: S6W-10588

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) domestic and (b) non-domestic students working in pulmonary rehabilitation services continue to practice after graduating.

Pulmonary rehabilitation services are made up of multidisciplinary teams which can include the following professions: physiotherapists, nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and doctors.

The Scottish Government does not hold data on the number of graduates from each profession who work in pulmonary rehabilitation services. However, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) collects and analyses data relating to the provision of further and higher education in Scotland and a breakdown of the number of overall graduates from each profession over the past five years is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (BIB number 63608). This is broken down by domicile: Scottish, rUK, EU, international.

Question reference: S6W-10579

Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on how it is possible for NHS Tayside to achieve 83.8% of patients seen within the four-hour A&E target, in light of NHS Forth Valley reportedly only achieving 41.7%.

Question reference: S6W-10577

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it collects data on the number of people who are discharged with a disability resulting from a stroke.

Question reference: S6W-10592

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) domestic and (b) non-domestic students have worked in pulmonary rehabilitation services in each of the last five years.

Pulmonary rehabilitation services are made up of multidisciplinary teams which can include the following professions: physiotherapists, nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and doctors.

All healthcare students require practice placements in a number of settings, which can include pulmonary rehabilitation services, but the Scottish Government does not hold data on the distribution of students across these placements as they are managed by individual universities.

However, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) collects and analyses data relating to the provision of further and higher education in Scotland and a breakdown of the number of overall graduates from each profession over the past 5 years is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (BIB number 63608). This is broken down by domicile : Scottish, rUK, EU, international.