- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Emma Roddick on 24 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council Limited since 2019.
Answer
Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council received funding from the Scottish Government’s Promoting Equality and Cohesion Fund (PECF) during 2017-2021. High-level PCEF outcomes are set out in Grant Offer Letters, and are as follows:
- A reduction in discrimination against people who share protected characteristics
- Reduced levels of hate crime
- Increased community participation, engagement and community cohesion
- Addressing imbalances in representation in all aspects and levels of public life
Impact Funding Partners (formerly named as The Voluntary Action Fund) were the fund managers for PECF, acting on behalf of the Scottish Government. The fund manager engaged with organisations directly to agree on workplans and set specific objectives and outcomes.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi McAllan on 19 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it provided to Al-Mahdi Foundation - Al-Mahdi Islamic Centre between 2018 and 2020.
Answer
As the Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) was delivered by Keep Scotland Beautiful on behalf of the Scottish Government, we do not hold the grant offer letter that details the specific outputs and outcomes for the Al-Mahdi Foundation’s 2018-2020 project.
However to be eligible all projects had to meet all four of the CCF’s key criteria; specific outputs and outcomes were designed around these:
- Community- Your community must be at the heart of the decision-making process of the project. Community demand for the project must be clearly demonstrated and projects must be designed and delivered by communities. Applicants should show how they will work in partnership with other local organisations that are engaged in similar or related work.
- Improved Climate Literacy - The project must deliver increased awareness and understanding of climate change and enable the community to make informed choices to reduce its impact on climate change.
- Carbon (CO2e) Reduction - The project must lead to a measurable reduction in local carbon emissions through the activities it delivers.
- Sustainable Legacy - The project must deliver a low carbon legacy, with outcomes and/or behaviours that continue after the project is completed.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi McAllan on 16 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it provided to Al-Mahdi Foundation - Al-Mahdi Islamic Centre in 2022.
Answer
No funding was provided by the Scottish Government directly to the Al-Mahdi Foundation in 2022.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi McAllan on 16 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-10494 by Roseanna Cunningham on 15 August 2017, which of the "42 formal Flood Protection Schemes or engineering works proposed for 2016-21" have been completed to date, broken down by (a) the number of properties being protected, (b) completion date and (c) the (i) initially forecast and (ii) final cost of each.
Answer
Information has been shared in response to similar questions many times (at least annually) since Roseanna Cunningham answered on 15 August 2017, most recently in response to Willie Rennie MSP on 9 November 2023.
The following formal flood protection schemes are complete.
Scheme | (a) Properties Protected | (b) Completion Date | (c)(i) Initial Cost (£ million) (1) | (c) (ii) Estimated Final Cost (£ million) (2) |
Huntly | 63 | 2017 | 4.9 | 3.8 |
Newmill | 18 | 2017 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
Dundee | 200 | 2018 | 6.2 | 6.9 |
Kirkwall | 750 | 2018 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
White Cart Water Phase 3 | 100 | 2019 | 5.9 | 7.2 |
Camlachie Burn | 410 | 2019 | 1.2 | 1.8 |
Smithton and Culloden | 129 | 2021 | 15.2 | 10 |
Bouvrie Burn | Not held | 2020 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
Broxburn (Liggat Syke) Phase 1 | Not held | P1 2019 | Not held | Not held |
New Cumnock | 95 | 2022 | 3.3 | 8.4 |
Broughty Ferry | 450 | 2022 | 10 | 16.3 |
Drumnadrochit | 35 | 2022 | 3.4 | 5.1 |
Stonehaven | 376 | 2023 | 19.9 | 27.5 |
Arbroath | 530 | 2023 | 11.4 | 13.5 |
Caol and Lochyside | 290 | 2023 | 8.4 | 15.2 |
(1) Note: Initial costs as provided by local authorities in 2016-17.
(2) Note: Final Scheme costs are the latest estimates provided by local authorities. Differences between these latest estimates and initial cost estimates arise because flood protection schemes are put forward for prioritisation at various stages of their development to fit with Flood Risk Management Planning cycle set out in the FRM Act. Costs are revised over time as designs are finalised and more detailed investigations are carried out (e.g. site investigation, utility investigation, hydraulic modelling), and as new information emerges (e.g. new flood mapping, climate projections, new source of risk, landownership challenges). Outcomes from community engagement and changes to price and supply of materials may also require revisions to cost estimates.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi McAllan on 16 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-10494 by Roseanna Cunningham on 15 August 2017, which of the "42 formal Flood Protection Schemes or engineering works proposed for 2016-21" are currently (a) under construction and (b) at the planning or other stage of development, broken down by (i) expected completion date, including the reason for any date being beyond 2021, (ii) the number of properties that will be protected and (iii) the (A) initially forecast and (B) expected final cost of each.
Answer
Information has been shared in response to similar questions many times (at least annually) since Roseanna Cunningham answered on 15 August 2017, most recently in response to Willie Rennie MSP on 9 November 2023.
Local authorities are responsible for the development and delivery of flood protection schemes. The 2015-2021 Flood Risk Management Strategies included 42 formal flood protection schemes. Local authorities were expected to start work on development of these schemes by 2021.
Flood protection schemes can have significant impacts on individuals, communities and the environment, and so require careful and detailed planning and consultation, it was recognised that construction work may not be completed within the 2015-2021 timeframe.
15 of the flood schemes have now been completed.
Schemes (a) under construction are as follows:
Scheme | (ii) Properties protected | (i) Completion Date | (iii A) Initial cost (£ million) (1) | ( iii B) Estimated final cost (£ million) (2) |
Upper Garnock | 600 | 2024 | 15.5 | 18.5 |
Hawick | 970 | 2024 | 37.4 | 78.6 |
Campbeltown | 770 | 2024 | 9.3 | 15.2 |
Millport Coastal | 657 | 2024 | 12.1 | 48.6 |
Stranraer | 350 | 2024 | 0.4 | 1.4 |
Schemes (b) under development are as follows:
Scheme | Stage | (ii) Properties protected | (iii A) Initial cost (£ million) (1) | ( iii B) Estimated Final Cost of Scheme (2) |
Kilmacolm – Glenmosston Burn | Confirmed (3) | Not held | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Comrie | Confirmed (3) | 189 | 15.7 | 40.0 |
Quarrier’s Village | Confirmed (3) | 60 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Dumfries - Whitesands | Confirmed (3) | 166 | 18.9 | 37.5 |
Water of Leith (Coltbridge, Gorgie, Saughton) Phase 3 | Confirmed (3) | 75 | Not held | Not held |
Mill Burn Millport | Confirmed (3) | 124 | 1.1 | 1.7 |
Musselburgh | Under development | 2500 | 8.9 | 95.9 |
Milnathort | Under development | 79 | 1.9 | 0.9 |
Dumbarton - Gruggies Burn | Under development | 370 | 14.5 | 20.0 |
Newton Stewart/ River Cree | Under development | 270 | 7.5 | 19.1 |
South Kinross | Under development | Not held | 3.2 | 15.1 |
Bridge of Allan | Under development | Not held | 4.4 | 17.0 |
Callander | Under development | 30 | 2.4 | 4.7 |
Haddington | Under development | 320 | 8.5 | 8.5 |
Stirling | Under development | 810 | 26.2 | 85.6 |
Grangemouth FPS | Under development | 2980 | 111.5 | 420 |
St Andrews - Kinness Burn | Under development | 133 | 3.2 | 3.2 |
South Fords | Under development | 58 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
Scone | Under development | 44 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
(1) Note: Initial costs as provided by local authorities in 2016-17.
(2) Note: Final Scheme costs are the latest estimates provided by local authorities. Differences between these latest estimates and initial cost estimates arise as a result of inflationary pressures and because flood protection schemes are put forward for prioritisation at various stages of their development to fit with Flood Risk Management Planning cycle set out in the FRM Act. Costs are revised over time as designs are finalised and more detailed investigations are carried out and as new information emerges.
Schemes will only be taken forward for construction if they receive the necessary statutory and regulatory approvals so the expected completion date is not yet known.
More detailed information on each of the schemes can be obtained from the relevant local authorities whose responsibility it is to develop and deliver flood protection schemes and who are best placed to answer specific questions on each of the schemes.
(3) Note: Formally confirmed under Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act (2009).
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Angela Constance on 16 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many people convicted of homicide have received as their main penalty a (a) Sheriff Court fine, (b) Justice of the Peace Court fine, (c) fiscal fine, (d) fiscal compensation order, (e) fiscal combined offer and (f) police antisocial behaviour penalty, in each year since 2018.
Answer
Of the people convicted for homicide (Murder or Culpable homicide) between the years 2017-18 and 2021-22, with 2021-22 being the most recent year for which data are available, none of them received a main penalty of (a) Sheriff Court fine, (b) Justice of the Peace Court fine, (c) fiscal fine, (d) fiscal compensation order, (e) fiscal combined offer.
(f) Police antisocial behaviour penalties are limited to certain antisocial behaviour offences as laid out in section 128 of the Antisocial Behaviour (S) Act 2004, of which homicide is not included.
The ‘Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2021-22’ statistical bulletin contains information on convictions and main penalty by crime type. Tables 3 and 7(a) in the Main Bulletin Tables can be found under supporting documents here: Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2021-22 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 January 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 16 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an assessment of the state of readiness of Scotland’s frontline services in response to the yellow warnings in place for freezing temperatures over the next 10 days.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 16 January 2024
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Paul McLennan on 12 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it provided to Shelter, the National Campaign for Homeless People Limited in 2022.
Answer
Shelter, the National Campaign for Homeless People Limited includes two registered charities: England and Wales (charity number 263710) and Scotland (charity number SCO02327).The Scottish Government only provided funding to Shelter Scotland in 2022. The three projects funded were the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership, the Scottish Housing Law Service and the Private Rented Sector Homeless Prevention in Dundee project.
The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership’s main objective was to bring as many of Scotland’s long-term empty homes back into use as is possible and to have a dedicated empty homes officer working across all 32 local authorities by March 2022.
The main objective of the grant for the Scottish Housing Law Service was to provide legal advice and representation to those seeking to exercise their legal rights to retain housing, access housing or improve their housing conditions.
The main objective of the grant for the Private Rented Sector Homeless Prevention in Dundee project was to prevent homelessness in the private rented sector by taking an early intervention approach with households at risk of building up arrears to prevent evictions into homelessness.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 11 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it provided to the Nairn Trust in 2022.
Answer
There is no record of funding being provided by the Scottish Government to “Nairn Trust” in 2022.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Christina McKelvie on 11 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it provided to the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland in 2022.
Answer
The Scottish Government provided funding to the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland in 2022 to support the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award.
The objectives for this funding were:
- to raise public awareness of the social, economic and environmental importance of good architecture;
- to act as a spur for excellence by example; and
- to raise the profile of the best Scottish architecture at home and abroad.
