- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it monitors any variance in the level of electric vehicle charging point tariffs between areas and, if so, whether it will share the data that it collects, and, if it does not carry out such monitoring, whether it will consider doing so.
Answer
Scottish Ministers do not currently monitor any variance in the level of electric vehicle charge point tariffs. The charge point owner is responsible for the setting of any tariffs on their electric vehicle charge points. The Scottish Government do not have a position on the levels of tariffs that the hosts can set, however, we expect these to be in line with the recovery of costs.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi McAllan on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider extending the powers of the Scottish SPCA to enable the investigation of a wider range of wildlife crime.
Answer
We set out our commitment to establish an independent taskforce to consider whether the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Scottish SPCA) should be given extra powers to investigate wildlife crime in both the 2021-22 Programme for Government and in our Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party Shared Policy Programme.
The taskforce’s role will include due consideration of the potential implications of any proposed changes to the powers of the Scottish SPCA. The taskforce will report back by the end of 2022.
We will set out the remit of the taskforce in more detail in due course.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to publish guidance on electric vehicle charging point tariffs.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer to question S6W-06576 on 14 March 2022. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the outcome of the investigation into the circumstances relating to the delay in an ambulance reaching Richard Brown, in Glasgow, in November 2021.
Answer
It is not appropriate for the Scottish Government or Ministers to comment on or intervene directly in individual cases relating to patient care.
We are aware that, following the tragic incident involving Mr Brown, the Scottish Ambulance Service has launched a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding this incident. The Service has been in regular contact with Mr Brown’s family and have confirmed that they will meet with the family again to discuss their full findings once their investigation is concluded in mid-March 2022.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many children living in (a) Midlothian, (b) East Lothian, (c) Scottish Borders, (d) Dumfries and Galloway, (e) South Ayrshire (f) East Ayrshire, (g) North Ayrshire, and (h) South Lanarkshire council areas are eligible to receive a free laptop or tablet and, of those, how many (i) have received a free laptop or tablet and (ii) are yet to receive a free laptop or tablet.
Answer
The following table shows how many school-aged children are in each local authority (as at September 2020) and how many devices have been distributed by councils using the £25m digital inclusion funding made available by Scottish Government in 2020-21.
Local authorities across Scotland have a range of approaches to provision of technology in schools, including some councils who have undertaken to provide cohorts of their school population with devices using their own budgets. We do not hold information centrally on those approaches, therefore, the table below only shows devices distributed through the funding made available by Scottish Government in 2020-21.
The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all school-aged children and young people in Scotland have access to a digital device by the end of this parliament.
Local Authority | Pupils (as at September 2020) | Devices Distributed |
Dumfries & Galloway | 18,682 | 2,371 |
East Ayrshire | 16,223 | 1,837 |
East Lothian | 14,882 | 1,806 |
Midlothian | 13,458 | 1,235 |
North Ayrshire | 18,061 | 1,734 |
Scottish Borders | 14,478 | 316 |
South Ayrshire | 14,267 | 1,512 |
South Lanarkshire | 45,091 | 5,544 |
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it estimates that every eligible child living in (a) Midlothian, (b) East Lothian, (c) Scottish Borders, (d) Dumfries and Galloway, (e) South Ayrshire (f) East Ayrshire, (g) North Ayrshire, and (h) South Lanarkshire council areas, will have a free laptop or tablet in their possession.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all school-aged children and young people in Scotland have access to a digital device by the end of this parliament in 2026.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Kate Forbes on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many of its staff receive a salary of over £100,000 per annum, broken down by department, and what the total cost is of those staff salaries.
Answer
As at 28 February 2022 a total of 32 staff earning over £100,000 per annum were employed in Core Scottish Government at a total salary cost of £3,680,537.
Directorate General | Number of Staff |
Strategy & External Affairs | 4 |
Communities | 2 |
Corporate | 6 |
Economy | 5 |
Education & Justice | 3 |
Health & Social Care | 5 |
Net Zero | 3 |
Scottish Exchequer | 2 |
Permanent Secretary | 2 |
In addition to the directly employed staff mentioned above, the Scottish Government also engages 6 individuals earning over £100,000 per annum on secondment, at a total cost of £781,184. These individuals remain employees of their parent organisations.
Directorate General | Number of Staff |
Health & Social Care | 5 |
Communities | 1 |
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many care workers it expects to be impacted by the workplace parking levy.
Answer
The Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 provides local authorities with a discretionary power to set up workplace parking licensing (WPL) schemes. It will be for local authorities to decide whether they wish to implement WPL locally and to shape proposals to suit local circumstances.
Liability for the WPL charge sits with employers, not with employees, and it is a matter for employers whether they pass on the cost to employees.
As the impacts will depend on local authorities’ proposals, it is for local authorities, rather than Ministers, to assess the likely impacts of their proposed schemes. Local authorities are required to consult those likely to be affected and undertake impact assessments before implementing a WPL scheme.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom Arthur on 8 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how much funding did each project receive and (b) how many jobs were created by each project as a result of the 2020 round of the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04826 on 13 December 2021. 26 Projects received recommendations of support totalling up to £24,145,384 as result the 2020 round of the fund. A list of all projects recommended to date can be found at https://www.gov.scot/publications/regeneration-capital-grant-fund-rcgf-recommended-projects-2014-2022/
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom Arthur on 8 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many projects were funded as a result of the 2020 round of the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund in the (a) Midlothian, (b) East Lothian, (c) Scottish Borders, (d) Dumfries and Galloway, (e) South Ayrshire, (f) East Ayrshire, (g) North Ayrshire and (h) South Lanarkshire Council area, broken down by the (i) name of, (ii) cost of and (iii) number of jobs created by, each project.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04826 on 13 December 2021. 26 Projects received recommendations of support totalling up to £24,145,384 as result the 2020 round of the fund.
No projects from Midlothian, East Lothian, Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire or South Lanarkshire Council were recommended from the 2020 round.
Projects supported in Scottish Borders, South Ayrshire and North Ayrshire Council are detailed in the following table with figures taken from the applications for funding made in 2020. These are ongoing capital projects.
Lead applicant | Project title | Total Projected Cost | Total Projected Jobs Created | Total Grant Recommended |
North Ayrshire Council | The Regeneration of Millport Town Hall | £2,000,000 | 5 | £1,500,000 |
North Ayrshire Council | Stevenston Beach Hub | £280,000 | 4 | £130,000 |
Scottish Borders Council | Yetholm Community Asset Regeneration Project | £318,460 | 1 | £133,710 |
South Ayrshire Council | Enterprising Carrick | £1,673,852 | 30 | £729,659 |
A list of all RCGF projects recommended to date can be found at https://www.gov.scot/publications/regeneration-capital-grant-fund-rcgf-recommended-projects-2014-2022/
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers