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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: S5W-14428

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) private companies and (b) SMEs have supplied goods and services to each of its departments in each year since 1999, broken down by the (i) number and (ii) total value of the contracts.

The following table provides the number of suppliers and the number of SMEs who have supplied goods and services to core Scottish Government departments for Financial Years 2005-06 to 2016-17 based on data contained in the Scottish Procurement Information Hub. The Hub reports on spend by supplier and not by contract therefore cannot provide information relating to the number and total value of contracts as requested.

Financial Year	Total Number Suppliers	Number of Suppliers where Employee Size known*	Number of SME Suppliers where Employee Size known**
2005-06	2,220	1,967	1,577
2006-07	2,150	1,922	1,545
2007-08	2,075	1,861	1,503
2008-09	1,986	1,799	1,466
2009-10	2,002	1,848	1,515
2010-11	1,790	1,642	1,316
2011-12	1,740	1,552	1,249
2012-13	1,889	1,650	1,328
2013-14	1,408	1,305	1,039
2014-15	1,641	1,458	1,190
2015-16	1,292	1,165	923
2016-07	1,539	1,272	1,013

Data is provided for core Scottish Government departments only.

Data is taken from the Scottish Procurement Information Hub and is based on spend with core trade suppliers.

Core trade suppliers are suppliers with whom over £1,000 has been spent in a 12 month period, that have also been classed as a trading organisation or as a non-trade social care provider.

*Supplier size is based on number of employees where it is known.

**SMEs are defined as suppliers with less than 250 employees.

Data correct at February 2017.

Question reference: S5W-14388

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the invoices for goods and services that have been supplied to each of its departments by (a) private companies and (b) SMEs in each year since 1999 has been paid on time.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information broken down by department and it no longer holds data going back as far as 1999. It also does not analyse payments for goods and services to determine whether they have been paid to private companies or SMEs.

However, we have provided in the following table, payment performance data for those invoices that were paid on time, within 30 days of receipt, from April 2012 to date.

Financial Year	Percentage number of invoices paid on time
2012-13	98.9%
2013-14	99.5%
2014-15	99.4%
2015-16	99.7%
2016-17	99.8%
2017-18 (April-January)	99.7%

Question reference: S5W-14252

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what impact the recent General Court of the EU (8th Chamber) decision regarding Charleroi Airport and state aid will have on Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

Question reference: S5W-14256

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many expressions of interest to purchase Glasgow Prestwick Airport it has received in each year since 2014, and whether it will provide a breakdown of these.

27 March 2017.

In my response I indicated that the Scottish Government had received and considered a number of approaches from parties expressing an interest in purchasing or investing in the business. I also indicated that any interest is commercially sensitive and it would not be appropriate for the Scottish Government to comment on these.

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.

Question reference: S5W-14260

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it proposes to allocate to each third sector interface in 2018-19.

The following table details the funding from the Scottish Government’s core Third Sector budget provided to all 32 Third Sector Interfaces covering a period of 18 months from 1 April 2017 to 30 September 2018. Funding beyond 30 September 2018 will be confirmed following agreement of the draft Scottish budget.

Third Sector Interface	1 April 2017 – 30 Sep 2018
Aberdeen	£291,000
Aberdeenshire	£396,000
Angus	£242,000
Argyll and Bute	£392,000
Clackmannanshire	£248,000
City of Edinburgh	£408,000
Dumfries and Galloway	£470,000
Dundee	£240,000
East Ayrshire	£232,000
East Dunbartonshire	£257,000
East Lothian	£254,000
East Renfrewshire	£238,000
Falkirk	£232,000
Fife	£376,000
Glasgow	£575,750
Highland	£854,000
Inverclyde	£239,000
Midlothian	£244,000
Moray	£252,000
North Ayrshire	£310,000
North Lanarkshire	£317,000
Orkney	£249,000
Perth and Kinross	£245,000
Renfrewshire	£248,000
Scottish Borders	£385,000
Shetland	£235,000
South Ayrshire	£260,000
South Lanarkshire	£337,000
Stirlingshire	£228,000
West Dunbartonshire	£243,000
West Lothian	£234,000
Western Isles	£462,000

Question reference: S5W-14258

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much financial support it provided to (a) Voluntary Action Scotland, (b) the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and (c) the third sector interface network in each of the last three years.

The following table details the funding from the Scottish Government’s core Third Sector budget provided to Voluntary Action Scotland, SCVO and the 32 Third Sector Interfaces for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and also funding from the Scottish Government’s core Third Sector budget covering a period of 18 months from 1 April 2017 to 30 September 2018. This does not include funding for specific projects across Scottish Government. Funding beyond 30 September 2018 will be confirmed following agreement of the draft Scottish budget.

Intermediary	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	1 April 2017 – 30 September 2018
Voluntary Action Scotland	£250,000	£255,515	£250,000	£375,000
SCVO	£1,259,934	£1,435,143	£1,327,832	£1,805,858
Third Sector Interface Network (32 TSI’s)	£8,155,094	£8,062,040	£8,188,720	£12,283,080

Question reference: S5W-14253

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many passengers have travelled through (a) Glasgow Prestwick, (b) Glasgow International and (c) Edinburgh Airport in each year since 2014.

Question reference: S5W-14254

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much cargo has been transported through (a) Glasgow Prestwick, (b) Glasgow International and (c) Edinburgh Airport in each year since 2014.

Question reference: S5W-14257

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason all grant funding for Voluntary Action Scotland from September 2018 has been stopped.

The decision to cease our funding to Voluntary Action Scotland (VAS) at the end of their current grant period in September 2018 was informed by both the independent evaluation into VAS and the TSIs (published December 2016) and by a subsequent year of engagement during which we held extensive discussions with VAS, TSIs and wider third and public sector partners.

Our overall resource allocation to support TSIs and the network is not being reduced. We are retaining the resource currently supporting VAS for the TSI network, to create flexibility to respond to ambition and collaborative approaches, and to continue to support network support, knowledge and practice sharing.

Our priority is supporting TSIs to deliver against an ambitious vision that puts them at the heart of local decision making and ensures they can support and respond to the needs of local communities.

Question reference: S5W-14255

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many military flights there have been to and from Glasgow Prestwick Airport in each year since 2014.

Year	No. of military movements
2013-14	3,726
2014-15	4,153
2015-16	4,521
2016-17	3,624
2017-18 (10 months)	3,283