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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: S6W-19095

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many cultural venues have been taken into community ownership in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S6W-19096

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 20 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what support it provides for community-run cultural venues and assets.

The Scottish Government supports a range of organisations which help preserve our culture and heritage in communities across Scotland.

Creative Scotland support community-run venues and assets through funds such as their Open Fund and partner funds like Awards for All. The Creative Scotland Regular Funding Network includes support for community-run venues including Lyra, Stove Network and WHALE arts.

Question reference: S6W-18848

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 16 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on any investigations that Scottish Opera has undertaken to determine whether any of the buildings that it manages were fitted with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete; whether any public funding was used to conduct any necessary repairs, and, if this is the case, what the cost was, broken down by building.

Question reference: S6W-18844

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 16 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on any investigations that the National Theatre of Scotland has undertaken to determine whether any of the buildings that it manages were fitted with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete; whether any public funding was used to conduct any necessary repairs, and, if this is the case, what the cost was, broken down by building.

Question reference: S6W-18845

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 16 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on any investigations that the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has undertaken to determine whether any of the buildings that it manages were fitted with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete; whether any public funding was used to conduct any necessary repairs, and, if this is the case, what the cost was, broken down by building.

Question reference: S6W-18847

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 16 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on any investigations that the Scottish Chamber Orchestra has undertaken to determine whether any of the buildings that it manages were fitted with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete; whether any public funding was used to conduct any necessary repairs, and, if this is the case, what the cost was, broken down by building.

Question reference: S6W-18846

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 16 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on any investigations that Scottish Ballet has undertaken to determine whether any of the buildings that it manages were fitted with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete; whether any public funding was used to conduct any necessary repairs, and, if this is the case, what the cost was, broken down by building.

Question reference: S6W-18839

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 15 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what investigations Creative Scotland has undertaken to determine whether any of the buildings that it manages were fitted with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, and what the cost was of conducting any necessary repairs, broken down by building.

Question reference: S6O-02404

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with NHS boards in the Highlands and Islands region regarding whether there has been any impact on the delivery of their services as a result of recent ferry cancellations.

Question reference: S6W-18451

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many medicine graduates from Scottish universities have stayed in Scotland to complete their two-year Foundation Programme training in each year since 2007.

Data is not available from 2007 as there were formerly no records held at a national level at that time. This information has been held on the national recruitment system from 2018 onwards, currently providing 5 years of finalised data and 1 year of provisional data.

In the following table are the number of nominations from Scottish Medical Schools for admission to Foundation training. Nominations are students that the medical school believes will pass finals and be eligible to progress to Foundation training. The data is uploaded in September/October, the year ahead of Foundation training starting, for example, 2022 data is for Foundation training which will start in August 2023. This information does not include those trainees who were withdrawn either by their medical school or by the student themselves.

Year	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023*
Nominated	821	874	852	894	981	936
Allocated to Scotland	548	560	575	557	630	655

* Provisional data (subject to trainee withdrawals).