- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Graeme Dey on 16 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of ScotRail services have (a) arrived and (b) terminated at (i) Newton-on-Ayr, (ii)Troon and (iii) Barassie railway station on time in the last 12 months.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04086 on 16 November 2021. 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: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Graeme Dey on 16 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of ScotRail services have (a) arrived and (b) terminated at (i) Newton-on-Ayr, (ii)Troon and (iii) Barassie railway station within five minutes of their scheduled arrival time in the last 12 months.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold the requested data as the franchise agreement does not obligate the franchisee to provide this information.
The member may wish to contact ScotRail for the requested information.
Performance information for ScotRail is available on-line, at the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) Data Portal (Table 3.18). An on-line link to this table can be found via:
http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/displayreport/report/html/5b6fbf8a-7fab-469e-9855-6c6cb4ff67dc
It includes ScotRail’s Public Performance Measure (PPM) information by operating sector and overall, on both a by-period and a moving-annual-average basis.
Also, ScotRail publishes quite detailed information for each four week period on by-station and by-sector PPM. This information is published at stations, and is also available on-line, via: https://www.scotrail.co.uk/performance-and-reliability
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 November 2021
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Answered by Kate Forbes on 15 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the anticipated timescale is for improving broadband coverage and speeds in Tarbolton.
Answer
The vast majority of properties (994) in Tarbolton already have access to superfast broadband speeds of 30 Megabits per second (Mbps) and above, thanks in large part to the £463 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) programme.
The remaining 169 properties in Tarbolton will be able to access superfast broadband, thanks to our Reaching 100% (R100) programme which will ensure that every home and business in Scotland can access superfast broadband by the end of 2021.
More information on what the R100 programme means for properties in Tarbolton can be found by visiting our online checker at https://www.scotlandsuperfast.com .
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what qualifies as "appropriate" in the context of its plans to introduce appropriate remuneration for board members of national culture and heritage public bodies, as referred to in A Culture Strategy for Scotland.
Answer
"Appropriate" means in accordance with public sector pay policy as it applies to board members of public bodies. The public sector pay policy document is revised on an annual basis.
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to introduce appropriate remuneration for board members of national culture and heritage public bodies, as referred to in A Culture Strategy for Scotland.
Answer
The position of Chair of Creative Scotland has attracted remuneration since the organisation was established on 1 July 2010 though no incumbent to date has chosen to accept that offer.
From 1 October 2019 members of Creative Scotland other than the Chair have been entitled to receive a daily fee of £218 per day up to a maximum of £2,616.
The introduction of remuneration for the board members of the other national culture and heritage public bodies has been deferred while the priority has been those bodies’ response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Remuneration will be considered, taking into account those bodies’ charitable status and also Scottish Ministers’ powers to remunerate according to each body’s statute.
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many school pupils in Scotland have paid for music tuition, provided by their local authority, since April 2021, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this data for the 2020-21 academic year. Data on local authority instrumental music services is collected by the Improvement Service and their report on the 2020-21 academic year will be published shortly at www.improvementservice.org.uk .
Since the start of the 2021-22 academic year, no charges have been levied on pupils for instrumental music tuition following agreement between Scottish Government and local authorities as part of the implementation of the Scottish Government's 100-day manifesto commitments.
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many school pupils have received music tuition through their local authority, broken down by local authority, in each year since 2011-12.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not collect this data.
Data on local authority instrumental music services is collected by the Improvement Service. Their reports can be found at www.improvementservice.org.uk .
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government in how many local authorities free music tuition is available for school pupils.
Answer
Instrumental music tuition is now available free of charge in all Scottish local authorities following agreement between Scottish Government and local authorities as part of the implementation of the Scottish Government's100-day manifesto commitments.
The Scottish Government has provided funding of over £7m in the 2021-22 academic year to sustain provision at current levels and is committed to working with local authorities to develop a model for a long-term sustainable instrumental music tuition service which includes sustainable funding arrangements.
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 9 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications for the Arts Alive programme were (a) received and (b) successful in 2020-21, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The 2020-21 Arts Alive programme received 52 applications and 42 were successful.
The applications comprised of:
- 32 applications for school sessions, from 31 applicants, covering 35 schools. 32 applications were successful.
- 20 applications for school residencies, from 20 applicants, covering 31 schools. 10 were successful.
Broken down by Local Authority Area:
Local Authority Area | Number of applications received | Number of successful applications |
Aberdeen City | 1 | 0 |
Aberdeenshire | 9 | 8 |
Angus | 2 | 2 |
Argyll and Bute | 3 | 2 |
Clackmannanshire | 1 | 1 |
East Dunbartonshire | 1 | 1 |
Edinburgh | 1 | 0 |
Glasgow City Council | 3 | 2 |
North Ayrshire | 1 | 0 |
Orkney | 1 | 1 |
Perth and Kinross | 12 | 11 |
Renfrewshire | 4 | 3 |
Scottish Borders | 3 | 2 |
South Lanarkshire | 1 | 1 |
Stirling | 7 | 6 |
West Dunbartonshire | 1 | 1 |
West Lothian | 1 | 1 |
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 9 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many social enterprises have made use of the cultural and creative Social Enterprise Network since it began operating.
Answer
There are currently 146 social enterprises on the list of current members of the Culture and Creative Social Enterprise Network (SEN) on the SEN website .
The number of social enterprises that have made use of the Culture and Creative SEN services over the years is far greater than the current membership for a number of reasons:
- Social enterprises that have delivered cultural/ creative activity (but this is not their primary activity) are linked into the activities of the SEN through other thematic SENs, Local SENs, Third Sector Interfaces (TSIs) and other partners.
- Organisations that do not fall within the Voluntary Code of Practice for Social Enterprise in Scotland and therefore cannot be a member have still tapped into services including events and signposting.
- Partner organisations (e.g. Local SENs, TSI’s, Creative Scotland, Museum Galleries Scotland, Just Enterprise, Culture Counts) that are providing one to one support have tapped into knowledge to ensure that the organisation they are working with is best supported.
- SENs may have also been a member for a period of time and are no longer a current member.