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This is a matter for Public Health Scotland. The information requested is not held centrally by Scottish Government.

Scotland’s Migration Service publishes performance data on a quarterly basis. This can be found at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-migration-service-performance-data/

987 appointments with individuals took place between April 2024 and October 2025. This is broken down as follows:

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-41577 on 11 November 2025. 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.

Skills Development Scotland publish annual Regional Skills Assessments (RSAs), which provide detailed information on regional labour markets. The latest RSA for the South of Scotland region was published in October 2025.

Through delivery of our Addressing Depopulation Action Plan, £30,000 was provided to Dumfries & Galloway Council with £30,000 in 2024-25 to undertake research into the local drivers of depopulation. The local authority has also received a total of £120,000 across 2024-25 and 2025-26 to scope and deliver locally-led depopulation interventions, including increasing local economic opportunities as a key priority.

We continue to engage closely with local authorities through the jointly chaired SG/COSLA Population Roundtable and our Population Programme Board includes representation from both COSLA and South of Scotland Enterprise, to ensure we are collaboratively addressing local depopulation trends.

The Scottish Budget for 2024-25 allocated £3.080m at Level 4 for Migration Strategy. Scotland’s Migration Service is one of the deliverables funded within this budget line. A total of £997,480.05 was spent on contracts with operational and digital suppliers to facilitate the design and delivery of Scotland’s Migration Service during 2024-25

The Scottish Budget for the 2025-26 financial year includes a Migration Strategy Level 4 budget allocation of £3.762m, from which funding for Scotland’s Migration Service is sourced, along with delivery of other public commitments around population and migration.

The Scottish Government regularly publishes spend information over £25,000 on its website. This can be accessed at: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/procurement-transparency/

Contract values are also published on the Public Contracts Register, which can be accessed at: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Contracts/Contracts_Search.aspx

For Scotland’s Migration Service, during the 23-24 and 24-25 financial years, a total of £692,688.00 was paid to Seraphus. To date, during the 25/26 financial year, £314,752.74 has been paid to Seraphus.

This spend relates to the following activities:

• Development of online guidance on business immigration matters (see https://migrationservice.scotland.org)
• Provision of webinars on business immigration matters
• Provision of one-to-one legal advice appointments for Scotland-based employers and inward investors
• Delivery of marketing and stakeholder engagement activities to promote Scotland’s Migration Service
• Reporting and service user engagement activities to support monitoring and evaluation of Scotland’s Migration Service
• Project management, training, and other overheads

No civil servants are employed by Scotland’s Migration Service. Officials from the Population and Migration Unit oversee the delivery of Scotland’s Migration Service.

There is no business requirement for officials to record the time spent on specific tasks or their work more generally. These are completed as part of normal duties, along with other tasks appropriate to roles as civil servants.

The priority group applicants who were successful were those who provided a combination of accurate information in their application, sufficient detail of their planned investment and their planned investment demonstrated strong alignment with the scheme objectives.

Although eligible applications from priority groups were given an uplift as part of the scoring criteria, priority status alone did not guarantee funding. Funding was awarded only where applications met all verification checks and the planned capital investment would deliver strongly against the schemes objectives, which is why only a proportion of priority applicants ultimately received support.