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The external costs associated with the production and publication of the paper ‘ Migration to Scotland after independence’ were published in the answer to question S6W-22829 on 21 November 2023. Additionally, there were launch costs for travel, for staff and external attendees, catering and venue hire, which totalled £1,443.47. 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 .

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We have previously answered two FOIs on website visits to the Building a New Scotland Papers:

• Unique online visitor statistics: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
• Building a New Scotland webpage visitors: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Paper title: A stronger economy with independence

Main paper URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-stronger-economy-independence/

Main paper publish date: 17-10-2022

Main paper views in first month (all pages): 77,787

Easy read URL : https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-stronger-economy-independence-easy-read-version/

Easy read publish date: 27-7-2023

Easy read views or download link clicks in first month: 254

Audio URL: https://soundcloud.com/scotgov/a-stronger-economy-with-independence-summary-audio-version

Audio publish date : 17-10-2022

Audio link clicks in first month: 409

Community language landing page URL : https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-stronger-economy-independence-summary/documents/

Translation publish date: 17-10-2022

Translation downloads in first month: Historic data not available for this period for downloads

BSL YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_TGJzVEXD0

Date BSL Version Published: 17-10-2022

Views in first 30 days: 102

The external costs associated with the production and publication of the paper ‘ Renewing democracy through independence’ were published in the answer to question S6W-11002 on 23 September 2022. Additionally, there were launch costs for travel, for staff and external attendees, a BSL interpreter and audio visual equipment which totalled £1718.60. 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 .

The external costs associated with the production and publication of the paper ‘ An independent Scotland in the EU ’ were published in the answer to question S6W-23099 on 30 November 2023. Additionally, there were launch costs for staff travel, catering and venue costs, which totalled £518.50. 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 .

The external costs associated with the production and publication of the paper ‘A stronger economy with independence’ were published in the answer to question S6W-13303 on 16 December 2022. Additionally, there were launch costs for staff and external attendees, a BSL interpreter and audio visual equipment which totalled £1715.80. 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 .

The external costs associated with the production and publication of the paper ‘ Citizenship in an independent Scotland’ were published in the answer to question S6W-20992 on 18 September 2023. Additionally, there were launch costs for travel, for staff and external attendees, which totalled £160.80. 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 .

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VisitScotland’s digitised annual accounts published on VisitScotland.org cover 2012-13 onward. Detailed in these, since (and including) the 2012-13 financial year, no bonus payments have been made to executive level staff. These annual accounts are publicly available by accessing online at https://www.visitscotland.org/about-us/annual-corporate-reports/annual-report

Please note that by ‘executive level’, VisitScotland refers to CEO and Director level staff.

No funding was offered through the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) for the repair of small scale wind turbines in 2022 and 2023.

In 2022 and 2023, CARES funding has mainly focussed on decarbonising community buildings and supporting off-electricity grid communities to upgrade their energy systems and decarbonise their energy supplies.

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Questions regarding day-to-day operational matters of Historic Environment Scotland are best answered directly by Historic Environment Scotland.

I have asked Historic Environment Scotland to respond directly to the member with a reply to his question in writing.