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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-19013

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, following the publication of its report, Marine and fisheries compliance: list of fixed penalty notices - 26 May 2020 to 30 June 2022, how many individual businesses received fixed penalty notices (FPN), and what the total value of FPNs paid to Marine Scotland was in the period covered by the report.

Question reference: S6W-19014

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what the cost of running its fleet of Marine Protection Vessels has been for each of the past five years.

Question reference: S6W-18683

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many local authorities that currently offer kerbside collection of glass for recycling have indicated that they (a) will and (b) will not continue to do so if the proposed Deposit Return Scheme launches in March 2024, or at any time thereafter, including with a national glass recycling element, and what the estimated forecasts are for the delivery of, and the uptake of, kerbside glass collection volumes in each local authority area.

Question reference: S6W-18789

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, what progress has been made to provide health boards with the ability to offer new, more advanced systems for GP practices through the national GP IT programme.

Through continued investment in the national ‘GP IT’ re-provisioning programme, Health Boards will have the ability to offer new and advanced, modernised systems for General Practice in Scotland. This dedicated resource supports the integration of primary, community and social care and facilitates increased standardisation of GP IT and integration into the wider eHealth infrastructure.

Cegedim (who offer the Vision product) passed Accreditation to allow rollout of the new Vision system in March 2022. Since July 2022, the migration process has been underway, with over 100 practices now on the new Managed Services across four health boards (NHS Tayside, Lanarkshire, Lothian and Grampian).

The new system provides a number of improvements for GPs and practices in relation to appointments, prescribing, connectivity to systems, shared community care and more robust centralised hosting.

Question reference: S6W-18783

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, what it has done to deliver improvements to telecare services, such as greater use of proactive wellbeing calls by alarm receiving centres, to telecare users.

Our primary focus on improving telecare services is in supporting the migration of existing analogue devices to new, more sophisticated, digital devices to ensure telecare services remain fit for purpose following the UK-wide switch-over of telephone lines to a digital infrastructure.

Local Government Digital Office (LGDO) has been commissioned by Scottish Government to lead on this work and are currently taking forward a tender to develop a national digital telecare Alarm Receiving Centre solution that will support a more joined up service across HSCPs (Health and Social Care Partnership) and housing providers offering telecare in Scotland.

In addition, we continue to explore the use of Proactive Telecare in Scotland to deliver a more tailored and preventative service that aims to anticipate and prevent crises and support wellbeing and resilience. This approach has been trialled on a small scale across two phases for which an evaluation is now available . Plans are currently underway to initiate a third phase of Proactive Telecare during 2023-24, reaching more citizens, to fully evaluate the potential and scope for Proactive Telecare as a nationally recommended approach.

Question reference: S6W-17025

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been allocated through the (a) Scottish Empty Homes Partnership and (b) Empty Homes Loan Fund in each year since it was launched, broken down by local authority.

Local authority	Scottish Empty Homes Partnership*	Empty Homes Loan Fund **
Aberdeen City Council	£49,400	Nil
Aberdeenshire Council	Nil	Nil
Angus Council	Nil	£120,000
Argyll & Bute Council	£56,217	Nil
The City of Edinburgh Council	£57,000	Nil
Clackmannanshire Council	Nil	£75,000
Comhairle Eilean Sair	£38,403	£155,000
Dumfries & Galloway Council	Nil	Nil
Dundee City Council	£30,000	Nil
East Ayrshire Council	Nil	£250,000
East Dunbartonshire Council	Nil	Nil
East Lothian Council	Nil	£150,000
East Renfrewshire Council	Nil	Nil
Falkirk Council	Nil	£100,000
Fife Council	Nil	£150,000
Glasgow City Council	Nil	£700,000
Highland Council	£50,715	£400,000
Inverclyde Council	Nil	£370,000
Midlothian Council	Nil	£125,000
Moray Council	Nil	£150,000
North Ayrshire Council	Nil	£200,000
North Lanarkshire Council	Nil	Nil
Orkney Islands Council	£36,900	Nil
Perth & Kinross Council	Nil	£350,000
Renfrewshire Council	Nil	Nil
Scottish Borders Council	£41,646	£150,000
Shetland Islands Council	Nil	Nil
South Ayrshire Council	Nil	Nil
South Lanarkshire Council	£58,040	Nil
Stirling Council	Nil	Nil
West Dunbartonshire Council	Nil	£300,000
West Lothian Council	Nil	£150,000

*it has not been possible to break this down by financial year.

**Angus, Glasgow, West Lothian, Falkirk, Clackmannanshire were paid in 12-13, Moray & Perth and Kinross were paid in 14/15 and all of the remaining loan payments were made in 13-14.

Question reference: S6W-18674

Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government which stakeholders have been invited to participate in the external tax stakeholder group due to meet in summer 2023.

Question reference: S6W-18675

Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how often the external tax stakeholder group will meet.

The Tax Advisory Group will build on the Scottish Government’s inclusive approach to tax policymaking. The group will be a key part of the achieving our ambitions for Open Government and greater engagement on tax policy and will be a long-term feature of how we engage on tax. Further details, including on the frequency of meetings, will be set out later this month. Minutes from the meetings will be published once agreed by the group.

Question reference: S6W-18673

Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has set a date for the publication of its Medium Term Financial Strategy in 2024, and, if so, when that will be.

Question reference: S6W-18807

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has created a Knowledge, Information and Data (KIND) virtual learning academy.

	2018 - 19	2019 - 20	2020 - 21	2021 - 22	2022 - 23
Total	£9,437,564.40	£9,909,706.80	£10,649,192.74	£10,129,334.11	£11,896,000.65