Questions and answers

Question reference: S5O-02501

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 November 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to encourage local sourcing across public sector catering.

Question reference: S5O-02447

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 4 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how it is collaborating with third sector organisations and other partners to tackle food insecurity.

No one should be hungry in a country as prosperous as Scotland. The Scottish Government are working with a number of third sector organisations and other partners to respond to and tackle the root causes of food insecurity.

In our Programme for Government, we committed to increasing our Fair Food Fund from £1.5 to £3.5 million in 2019-20. This Fund currently supports 34 community food organisations, including 13 food banks to develop dignified and rights-based responses to food insecurity.

In addition to this, our £20 million Empowering Communities Fund comprises a number of targeted funds and programmes that support community-led Regeneration, including projects that tackle food insecurity.

Question reference: S5W-18652

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 20 September 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much music tourism has contributed to the economy in each of the last five years.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

UK Music Trust conducts an annual survey of the contribution of live music to the UK economy, including Scotland, in its “Wish you were here” survey. Surveys have been carried out from 2013-2017. Surveys are available through its website at https://www.ukmusic.org/ .

Information held by VisitScotland for music tourists from outside Scotland to events which it has sponsored shows provides the following figures in each of the last financial years:

Financial Year	Net economic return from outside Scotland (£m)
2013-14	17.8
2014-15	32.1
2015-16	13.6
2016-17	7.0
2017-18	7.4

Question reference: S5W-18666

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 19 September 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much has been generated from music tourists in Glasgow in the last year.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

UK Music conducts an annual survey of the contribution of live music to the UK economy, including Scotland, in its “Wish you were here” survey. Surveys have been carried out from 2013-2017. Surveys to 2016 include specific information on live music in Glasgow. Surveys are available through its website at https://www.ukmusic.org/ .

The research report “Growing the Value for Music Tourism in Glasgow suggests that for 2015 the total value contributed by live music attendance in Glasgow is £159.7 million. The report, conducted and written by Dougal Perman, Tim Wright and Fay Young, with contributions and support from the collaborative research team and Glasgow’s music industry, is available at http://www.innerear.co.uk/consultancy-and-research/growing-value-music-tourism-glasgow/ .

Information from VisitScotland for events which it has sponsored in Glasgow in the financial year 2017-18 shows there was a net economic return from outside Scotland of £6.1 million generated by music tourists in Glasgow. A music tourist is a person who has taken part in a music element to their trip, such as a music gig, concert or festival. That activity could be part of a longer holiday or could be the sole purpose of the trip.

Question reference: S5W-18665

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 19 September 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what the total attendance at music events in Glasgow has been in the last year.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

UK Music conducts an annual survey of the contribution of live music to the UK economy, including Scotland, in its “Wish you were here” survey. Surveys have been carried out from 2013-2017. Surveys to 2016 include specific information on live music in Glasgow. Surveys are available through its website at https://www.ukmusic.org/ .

Information held by VisitScotland for events which it has sponsored in Glasgow shows that in the financial year 2017-18 there were 67,627 attendances at music events in Glasgow. This does not include attendances at Celtic Connections.

Question reference: S5W-17045

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how the Scottish Government is celebrating 150 years of the TUC.

I attended the TUC’s 150 th Anniversary reception at Westminster on 6 June 2018 to celebrate their longstanding commitment to protecting the rights of workers and improving workplace relations.

The Scottish Government's support for the trade union movement in Scotland is demonstrated through funding to the STUC of £2.2 million for Scottish Union Learning and £350,000 for the Trade Union Fair Work and Modernisation Fund and the Leadership and Equality Programme.

We will do all that we can to oppose UK Government policy, such as the Trade Union Act, that continues to threaten the role of trade unions.

Question reference: S5O-02224

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 13 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making in implementing the Independent Review of Student Financial Support in Scotland's recommendation that care-experienced students under 26 should receive a minimum student income of £8,100.

Building on the Scottish Government’s existing commitment to support care-experienced young people to access Further and Higher Education, the care-experienced bursary will be increased to £8,100 in 2018-19 with additional funding of more than £5 million provided to support that.

This brings care-experience bursary support in line with the Scottish Living Wage as recommended by the independent Review of Student Support.

Question reference: S5O-02161

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 May 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress developing the low emission zone in Glasgow.

Question reference: S5W-16136

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2018
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 24 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what changes to parliamentary liaison officers have been made; to which ministers, and what their responsibilities are.

The First Minister has made changes to the appointed parliamentary liaison officers (PLOs), the revised list is set out in the following table. The role of PLOs is to assist in developing and maintaining a positive and constructive relationship between the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government and to take account of the views of the Parliament and of Scotland as a whole. PLOs are unpaid, are not members of the government and are not, therefore, bound by collective responsibility.

Parliamentary Liaison Officer	Portfolio
Ben Macpherson MSP Gail Ross MSP	Office of the First Minister
Mairi Evans MSP	Communities, Social Security and Equalities
Tom Arthur MSP	Culture, Tourism and External Affairs
Ivan McKee MSP	Economy, Jobs and Fair Work
Jenny Gilruth MSP	Education and Skills
Gillian Martin MSP	Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform
Kate Forbes MSP	Finance and Constitution
Fulton MacGregor MSP	Health and Sport
Emma Harper MSP	Rural Economy and Connectivity
Fulton MacGregor MSP	Justice

Question reference: S5O-02021

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to concerns raised by commuters regarding the level of stop-skipping by services that are scheduled to call at Drumchapel station.

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