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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-09126

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding each (a) local authority and (b) National Park will receive from its Edinburgh Process Fund.

Under the Edinburgh Process strand of the Nature Restoration Fund, Local Authorities have been allocated a share of £5 Million for 2022-23, using a formula based on the area of urban greenspace and local nature reserves, as set out in the following table:

Local Authority	Rounded Allocation (£m)
Aberdeen City	0.135
Aberdeenshire	0.213
Angus	0.150
Argyll & Bute	0.238
Clackmannanshire	0.091
Dumfries & Galloway	0.257
Dundee City	0.086
East Ayrshire	0.102
East Dunbartonshire	0.132
East Lothian	0.110
East Renfrewshire	0.061
Edinburgh, City of	0.161
Eilean Siar	0.124
Falkirk	0.179
Fife	0.378
Glasgow City	0.132
Highland	0.328
Inverclyde	0.160
Midlothian	0.103
Moray	0.124
North Ayrshire	0.190
North Lanarkshire	0.274
Orkney	0.054
Perth & Kinross	0.176
Renfrewshire	0.102
Scottish Borders	0.161
Shetland	0.079
South Ayrshire	0.096
South Lanarkshire	0.188
Stirling	0.114
West Dunbartonshire	0.126
West Lothian	0.176
TOTAL	5.000

The two National Park authorities have each been allocated £0.25 Million.

The remaining £1 million has been made available on a competitive basis for Local Authorities who are planning to undertake a single large project which cannot be funded through their allocation. Applications for this competitive element can be made to NatureScot and are open until the end of June 2022.

Question reference: S6W-09193

Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to address any workforce shortages in (a) liver nurse specialists and (b) hepatologists.

The Scottish Government is committed to delivering a high quality healthcare service to the people of Scotland, including those with liver disease. To support NHS Scotland ensure it has the workforce capacity to deliver those services, we published the National Health and Social Care Workforce Strategy on 11 March 2022, which outlines our ambitions for recovery, growth and transformation of our workforce. Workforce projections for Health and Social Care will be published later this year. These will incorporate evidence from local Three Year Workforce Plans.

We will support Health Boards with their recruitment needs as set out in their plans directly through investment in international recruitment.

NHS Scotland's staffing levels are at a record high, and have now increased for ten consecutive years. We have also funded record numbers of healthcare education places this academic year.

Question reference: S6W-09128

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it will next publish the tenant grant fund monitoring information; how regularly it will continue to publish the information, and what the latest (a) expenditure, (b) grant and (b) refusal figures are that it has received, broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) period covered.

The next set of data will cover the three month period up to 31 March 2022 and will be published once all 32 local authorities have provided the relevant information. This was requested from local authorities in April and reminders were sent in May and June. We will continue to publish this information on a quarterly basis.

To date, data until 31 March 2022 detailing expenditure, grant and refusal figures have been obtained for 23 local authorities. This shows £4,463,069.51 expenditure, 4,003 grants and 1,298 refusals.

The latest set of full available data, broken down by local authority, is the Tenant Grant Fund monitoring report: January 2022 , which was published in March 2022.

As local authorities can continue to use any remaining allocation in 2022-23 until fully spent, a final review will be carried out once all LAs have closed their funds.

Question reference: S6W-09133

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has contacted or drawn upon existing frameworks and organisations, such as Room for Refugees, as learning examples for Ukrainian refugees coming to Scotland through the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

Scotland has a wealth of experience and learning from previous refugee schemes and we have held discussions with experienced stakeholders including Room for Refugees. The New Scots strategy is providing the foundation for our response to Ukraine. It sets the clear principle that integration should begin and be supported from day one of arrival and has a tried and tested approach to integrating refugees into our communities, schools, and workplaces.

We are working closely and collaboratively with partners to ensure we rapidly respond to opportunities and resolve challenges and issues as they emerge, and ensuring that stakeholders and the direct experiences of those arriving in Scotland feeds directly into continuing to improve our programme.

Question reference: S6W-09150

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many mental health workers have been recruited through the Primary Care Improvement Fund, further to its reported forecast of having an additional 298 recruited by March 2022.

Question reference: S6W-09169

Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason Zero Waste Scotland’s report on reuse and repair sector stock control options was not published on its website, and how much the report cost to produce.

Question reference: S6W-09175

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what support exists to allow people who have experienced vaccine injury to recoup any lost earnings.

Question reference: S6W-09170

Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of all reports commissioned by Zero Waste Scotland since 2011 that shows (a) how many were (i) published and (ii) not published and (b) the total cost of each.

Question reference: S6W-09176

Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the Textile Innovation Fund has been spent to date.

Question reference: S6W-09245

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met the Save a Life for Scotland partnership.

The Scottish Government is a key partner in the Save a Life for Scotland Partnership. The delivery of the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Strategy 2021 – 2026 is facilitated and overseen by two groups; the Strategy Delivery Group and the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Reference Group.

The Scottish Government attended the most recent meeting of the Strategy Delivery Group on 7 April 2022.

The most recent meeting of the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Reference group, also attended by Scottish Government, took place on 27 April 2022.

Scottish Government also took part in a Save a Life for Scotland partner’s meeting on 18 May 2022.