- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 3 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish details of any financial agreements and pay arrangements involving Ferguson Marine’s (a) recent interim chief executive, (b) most recent permanent chief executive and (c) current senior personnel.
Answer
Details of the remuneration and pension benefits of Board members of Ferguson Marine are published annually in the Remuneration and Staff Report section of the Annual Report and Financial Statements of Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Holdings Ltd, which is available from the Companies House website.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 3 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish any data analysis that it has carried out on any regional differences in health outcomes for young women.
Answer
Our Women’s Health Plan Data Landscape Review examined the publicly available data on the health of women in Scotland and is available here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/womens-health-plan-review-data-landscape.
This report highlights the data and data sources that are available on health outcomes for women and girls in Scotland and includes information on young women.
The report covers data at Scotland level, but much of these data are disaggregated by age and region, health board or local authority at the data source.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 June 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Angela Constance on 3 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many prisoners released early in 2024 had convictions for (a) violent or antisocial behaviour and (b) crimes against women.
Answer
I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:
SPS have proactively shared the data analysis for those released early in 2024, and the full breakdown can be accessed on our website here Data, Research and Evidence | Scottish Prison Service.
The offence categories analysed were in line with the Index Offence Derivation which does not include crimes against women. Further information on recognised offence categories can be found here CellWise Data Construction - Scottish prison population statistics technical manual - gov.scot.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 3 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what role it has in overseeing financial agreements at Ferguson Marine; what its response is to reports that there was a “verbal agreement” with a subcontractor that led to the shipyard facing a bill for almost £48,000 in unpaid tax, and whether it was aware of any such deal.
Answer
The Framework Agreement that exists between Ferguson Marine and the Scottish Government, dated September 2024, outlines the role of the Scottish Government regarding the financial arrangements of the business. The agreement is available from the website of Ferguson Marine.
The Scottish Government was not made aware of the agreement made by the former CEO of Ferguson Marine, David Tydeman, with a subcontractor that resulted in unpaid tax until it was reported to the Chair, the Board of Ferguson Marine, and the sponsor department.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 June 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 3 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on how many incidents of aggression or violence towards female teachers in schools have been recorded in the past five years.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally as local authorities are the employer of school staff. Local authorities may hold this information.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 3 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what the total lease cost is for its offices at (a) Tankerness Lane, Kirkwall, (b) Longman House, Inverness, (c) Marine Scotland (Eyemouth), (d) Marine Scotland (Peterhead), (e) St Andrew's House, Edinburgh, (f) Cadzow Court, Hamilton and (g) 4 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow.
Answer
Tankerness Lane, Kirkwall; Longman House, Inverness; St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh and Cadzow Court, Hamilton are all owned under the core Scottish Government core estate.
The lease at 4 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow expired on 14 July 2024. Therefore, there are no lease costs applicable to these properties.
For the remaining properties, I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-37224 on 13 May 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.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 3 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-37224 by Ivan McKee on 13 May 2025, what the annual running cost was for each of its offices from January to December 2024.
Answer
The following table shows the annual total running costs for each of the leased Scottish Government offices as per the response to question S6W-37224. These figures include all associated costs for running each office building and cover January to December 2024.
Property | Total running costs |
10 Commerce Street (Fraserburgh Fishery Office) | £29,809.00 |
28 Cunzie Street (Anstruther Fishery Office) | £32,356.75 |
40 Hall Street (Campbeltown Fishery Office) | £25,895.50 |
5 Atlantic Quay | £3,982,638.25 |
7 Ferry Terminal Building (Kirkwall Fishery Office) | £36,320.00 |
AB1 Building | £77,675.50 |
Alexander Fleming House | £139,131.50 |
Alexandra Buildings (Lerwick Fishery Office) | £64,520.00 |
Bothwell House (Ground and First Floors) | £50,159.25 |
Brooms Road - Dumfries | £379,197.75 |
Caley Building (Peterhead Fishery Office) | £94,501.00 |
Charlotte House | £205,861.75 |
Compass House | £107,486.25 |
Culag Pier (Lochinver Fishery Office) | £17,765.75 |
Custom House (Stornoway Fishery Office) | £48,248.50 |
Denholm House | £231,818.50 |
Fishmarket Building (Eyemouth Fishery Office) | £29,355.75 |
Hadrian House | £125,719.50 |
Harbour Buildings (Mallaig Fishery Office) | £18,971.75 |
Inchbraoch House | £69,534.75 |
Kinlochbervie Fishery Office - Number 5 | £1,985.00 |
Kinlochbervie Fishery Office - Number 7 | £17,557.75 |
Office at Tarbert Fish Market | £3,759.50 |
Russell House | £529,154.00 |
Scotland House - Brussels | £282,994.08 |
Scotland House - London | £753,112.00 |
St Ola House (Scrabster Fishery Office) | £83,325.25 |
Strathearn House | £954,122.75 |
The Douglas Centre (Buckie Fishery Office) | £17,243.25 |
The Island Centre, Crossapol | £31,108.75 |
The Links, Golspie | £42,587.00 |
Unit 4B Kinlochleven Business Park | £157,549.00 |
Unit 5, Old Quay - Campbeltown | £3,884.50 |
West Shore Street (Ullapool Fishery Office) | £41,350.25 |
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 3 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many working groups currently exist within its (a) departments and (b) agencies, and how this compares with each year since 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-24570 on 29 January 2024.
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: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 3 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Minister for Business and Employment met representatives of PetroChina during his visit to Beijing on 9 April 2025, and, if so, for what reason, and what the outcomes of the meeting were.
Answer
On 9 April, the Minister for Business and Employment met the vice president of PetroChina and the China National Petroleum Cooperation to discuss our shared ambitions for the future of the Grangemouth refinery site. It was agreed that the Scottish Government and PetroChina will continue to explore all routes to deployment of new industrial and employment opportunities at Grangemouth.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 June 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Angela Constance on 3 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many prisoners convicted of violent offences were released under the early release scheme between February and March 2025.
Answer
I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:
SPS have proactively shared the data analysis for those released under the early release scheme between February and March 2025, and the full breakdown can be accessed on our website here Data, Research and Evidence | Scottish Prison Service.
The offence categories analysed were in line with Scottish Governments official Index Offence statistics. There were 152 individuals released during this process with offences within the Nonsexual crimes of violence category.
