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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S5W-14941

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 8 March 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many people registered as self-employed in each year since 2011.

Table 1 shows the level of self-employment in Scotland in each year from October 2010–September 2011 to October 2016-September 2017 from the Annual Population Survey (APS). The October 2016-September 2017 is the most recent data available from the APS.

Table 1: Level of self-employment, Scotland, 2011-2016

Year	Self-employment (level)
Oct 2010-Sep 2011	284,200
Oct 2011-Sep 2012	299,300
Oct 2012-Sep 2013	289,400
Oct 2013-Sep 2014	301,700
Oct 2014-Sep 2015	303,700
Oct 2015-Sep 2016	311,000
Oct 2016-Sep 2017	326,200

Source: Annual Population Survey, Office for National Statistics

Question reference: S5O-01894

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 March 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce ambulance waiting times.

Question reference: S5W-14985

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 March 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many jobs the SME Holding Fund has created.

Question reference: S5W-14987

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 7 March 2018

To ask the Scottish Government which businesses have received funding from the Scottish Growth Scheme in each month since its establishment, broken down by amount.

Details on number of businesses and level of investment by each month is as follows:

Month	Total number of businesses	Total level of investment
October 2017	8	£ 7, 392,069
November 2017	4	£ 5, 571,471
December 2017	13	£ 10, 200,309
January 2018	2	£ 774,760
February 2018	3	£ 4, 198,970
March (up to 6 ^th)	1	£ 2, 034,278
Total	31	£ 30, 171,857

Information on investments in individual companies is not available due to commercial confidential agreements with investors, but these companies are in a variety of sectors such as software development, textiles, energy, multimedia, fintech and healthcare.

Question reference: S5W-14981

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 March 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, since SME Holding Fund Strategic Interventions was introduced (a) how many and (b) what value of applications for support have been made to Scottish Enterprise in each year; of these, how many were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful; what the total value was of both, and whether it will provide details of each business and their location.

Question reference: S5W-14986

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 7 March 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses have received support from the Scottish Growth Scheme.

Question reference: S5W-14984

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 March 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether the overall leverage target of £4 per £1 grant from the SME Holding Fund has been achieved.

Question reference: S5W-14979

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 March 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, since SME Holding Fund Strategic Interventions was introduced, (a) how many and (b) what value of applications for support have been made to DSL Business Finance Limited in each year, and, of these, how many were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful and what the total value was of both, and whether it will provide details of each business and their location.

We are planning to publish a performance report on the SME Holding Fund next month. I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-14261 on 21 February 2018. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

Some of the information requested will be contained within that report, it will not however include information on unsuccessful applications (this information is not collected by Scottish Government) or provide information on businesses and their location (due to the commercially sensitive nature).

Question reference: S5W-14978

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 March 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what total funding has been made available to the SME Holding Fund Strategic Interventions in each year since its introduction.

Question reference: S5W-14980

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 March 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, since SME Holding Fund Strategic Interventions was introduced, (a) how many and (b) what value of applications for support have been made to Business Loans Scotland Limited in each year; of these, how many were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful; what the total value was of both, and whether it will provide details of each business and their location.