- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 October 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of how much funding it has invested in the sustainable development of Scotland’s historic estate in (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23, in line with the Scottish National Party 2021 manifesto commitment.
Answer
The Scottish Government delivers support for the Historic Environment through sponsorship of Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and we continue to invest and support the sustainable development of Scotland’s historic estate.
In 2021-2022 we provided HES with £75.9m of Grant in Aid funding which included £20m in Covid emergency funds. In 2022-23, we have provided £68.9m of Grant in Aid funding to support Historic Environment Scotland, maintaining our enhanced support given the impact of the pandemic on HES’s commercial income. This funding is still substantially more than the £42.8m funding provided to HES pre pandemic.
Sustainable development and protection of the historic environment is a vital area of work that HES delivers. More specific detail on the HES’s delivery of this work is available in their Annual Operating Plan 2022-23 | Historic Environment Scotland.
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 October 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government in what ways it has increased funding available to artists in line with the Scottish National Party 2021 manifesto commitment.
Answer
Artists are a significant part of Scotland's culture sector and the Scottish Government is committed to seeing them thrive.
Since April 2021, Creative Scotland has distributed 491 awards to individuals through the Open Fund, totalling £6.2m.
They also distributed 3,923 awards to individuals through the Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers, to the value of £7.5m in the same period.
Further information on the delivery of SG emergency Covid19 funds by Creative Scotland is available in the Evaluation of Creative Scotland COVID-19 Emergency Funding Programmes | Creative Scotland which covers the 2020-21 emergency funding. A further report on the delivery of SG’s emergency funding by Creative Scotland from late 2021-2022 is currently in preparation.
Creative Scotland is also working on a new approach to funding organisations over multiple years as set out in their Future Funding Review. This aims to offer organisations greater certainty in planning which will improve opportunities for the many freelance artists that are pivotal to their work and who make up over half of the workforce in the arts sector.
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 October 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it made support through its Festival Expo Fund available to the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) prior to the organisation reportedly entering into administration, and, if so, how much funding was awarded to CMI in each year since 2007.
Answer
The Scottish Government has supported the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) in the production of Edinburgh International Film Festival through our Festival EXPO fund since the fund’s inception in 2007. The amounts awarded are as follows:
2008-09 - £60,000
2009-10 - £110,000
2010-11 - £180,000
2011-12 - £100,000
2012-13 - £150,000
2013-14 - £110,000
2014-15 - £125,000
2015-16 - £115,000
2016-17 - £110,000
2017-18 - £110,000
2018-19 - £104,000
2019-20 - £100,000
2020-21 - £75,000
2021-22 - £50,000
2022-23 - £110,000
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 October 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has introduced three-year funding settlements for Scottish Government core funded cultural organisations, in line with the Scottish National Party 2021 manifesto commitment.
Answer
The Scottish Government is continuing to work closely with its core funded cultural organisations, to understand the impacts that the current cost crisis, and wider pressures, are having on the sector. We will be looking at the potential for three-year funding settlements in preparations for the 2023-24 budget.
- Asked by: Sue Webber, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 October 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi McAllan on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what issue it is seeking to address by proposing to implement a new licensing scheme for muirburn.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers to questions S6W-11097 and S6W-11098 on 17 October 2022. 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
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 October 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will confirm how many (a) core funded and (b) non-core funded cultural organisations have received three-year funding settlements.
Answer
The Scottish Government is continuing to work closely with the culture sector, to understand the impacts that the current cost crisis, and wider pressures, are having on the sector. Due to the dynamic situation we are still assessing multi-year settlements for core funded cultural organisations. For non-core funded cultural organisations Creative Scotland is working on a new approach to funding Regularly Funded Organisations as set out in their Future Funding Review.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much it expects to recoup from asking Integration Joint Boards to return any unspent COVID-19 funding.
Answer
The majority of Integrated Joint Board reserves are earmarked for specific purposes, in particular the ongoing response to COVID-19 and cannot be used to fund new spending commitments.
Further Covid funding has not been available from the UK Government for Covid related pressures in 2022-23.
Further work will be carried out to assess the amounts to be re-couped from IJBs in line with Covid requirements
More than £1.6 billion has been provided for social care and integration in 2022-23in addition to support for Covid, and we are committed to increasing spend in social care by at least 25% by the end of this Parliament, an increase of over £840 million.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what modelling it has been undertaken to calculate the updated level of unmet need in adult social care since the publication of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care.
Answer
Scottish Government analysts are considering options for increasing our understanding of the nature and level of unmet need in adult social care, and will continue to engage with external partners to develop appropriate approaches and deliver new insights over the coming months.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much money it expects to spend on the use of private companies in undertaking contracts for work relating to the establishment of a National Care Service in the financial year of (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25, broken down by the purpose of any such spending.
Answer
Please see the following table of contracts which have been awarded so far by year, as part of the National Care Service Programme.
Currently, there is no additional budget specifically allocated for procuring external advice from private companies, although the National Care Service Programme will retain flexibility to procure external expertise as necessary to deliver the National Care Service.
Contract | Supplier Awarded Contract | Contract Duration | Contract Dates | Total Contract Value | Contract Purpose |
Financial Controls Review | AAB | 4 months with the option for a 4 month extension which can be used purely for time to complete, not to add monetary value | 25-04-22 – 25-08-22 | £45,504 exc. VAT | To provide advice to the NCS finance team on recommendations for improvement where necessary on the financial controls in place, the capacity and capability of the finance team, and the methodology used to provide estimates set-up and running costs for the NCS. |
VAT Advice | AAB | 12 months | Spring 22-23 – Spring 23-24 | £46,749 exc. VAT | To provide advice on necessary VAT preparations for the establishment of a NCS. To provide advice on the VAT impact of different NCS scenarios and recommend any options and/or solutions that could potentially achieve a VAT neutral outcome. |
Operating Model and Business Case production | KPMG | 18 months | 13-12-21 – 13-06-23 | £546,000 | To produce a Current Operating Model for the current social care sector, a Target Operating Model for the National Care Service and a Programme Business Case. |
Provision of Consultation response analysis | PwC | 3 months | Dec 21 – Feb 22 | £68,360 | Contract to undertake analysis and the production of a report for the public consultation on A National Care Service for Scotland. Contract now complete. |
National Care Service Operating model design | PwC | 2 months | 03-09-21 – 03-11-21 | £107,020.80 | Contract for advice and the production of a report on programme governance arrangements and a Design Authority within the National Care Service Programme. Contract now complete. |
Landscape review | Socitim (Society for Innovation, Technology and Modernisation) | 12 months | 14-02-22 – 14-02-23 | £412,624 exc. VAT | A review of the technology and digital architectural landscape across the public, private and third sector organisations who are involved in the delivery of social care services in Scotland to understand what will and will not work in the system |
User research | Storm ID | 2 months | 21-02-22 – 27-04-22 | £47,300 exc. VAT | User research to explore how people experience interacting with services in Scotland, and is particularly focussed on what data is important to them. Contract now complete. |
International research | Capgemini Invents | 2 months | 24-02-22 – 15-04-22 | £49,000 exc. VAT | Research to understand what digital approaches, services and products have enabled similar services outside of Scotland and what lessons can be learned from both successful and unsuccessful digital projects and programmes. This will focus on the technical and practical elements of work rather than the policy drivers. Contract now complete. |
Technical architecture partner | Capgemini Invents | 12 months | 15-08-22 – 15-08-23 | £338,730 exc. VAT | Research to understand in detail how data is currently flowing in the social care and health system and a technical architecture review of existing national digital assets to make a technical assessment to inform design decisions and inform the re-use of assets where appropriate. |
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 October 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to maximise awareness and uptake of the Young Patients Family Fund for young cancer patients and their families.
Answer
The Young Patients Family Fund is available to families of all young inpatients aged under 18 - no matter their diagnosis. Posters and leaflets to promote the Fund are available in all Health Boards and we continue to work with Health Boards to best ensure families are aware of the Fund.
The Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer is currently reviewing its web content and has confirmed that it will be signposting to the YPFF in its update.
