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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.

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Question reference: S6W-24906

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Royal Blind Asylum and School since 2019.

The Royal Blind School receives annual grant funding from the Scottish Government, which is used to support the direct delivery of specialist education and care provision for children and young people with complex additional support needs, including those with visual impairment. The key recurring grant objectives set out for the school in their annual grant letters since 2019-20 are:

Provide high quality education and / or care to the children and young people who attend the Royal Blind School and Sight Scotland education outreach services.
Continue to develop the delivery of peripatetic support to local authorities, children and young people with visual impairment.
Identify collaboratively, the development objectives with all pupils, staff and stakeholders.
Evidence and maintain the Royal Blind School’s leading position and its value to the provision and enhancement of good practice in education, learning and care for school age children with Visual Impairment and particularly those with complex additional support needs.
Ensure the ongoing viability of the school, continue to be committed to attracting and developing alternative sources of income through commercial activity and partnership working.
Improve and develop partnership opportunities with all stakeholders of the Royal Blind School.
In addition to the core objectives set out above, two further objectives were set within specific years. These were not recurring objectives and were met within the years set.
Throughout 2020-21 implement the actions/activities in the School Improvement Plan to ensure children and young people who attend the Royal Blind School receive high quality education and care.
To continue to develop and operate the Learning Hub in order to provide support to local authorities, children and young people with visual impairment and their families and other agencies with visual impairment across Scotland; and provide by 31 March 2020 an evaluation of progress in the 2019-20 outcomes report.

Question reference: S6W-25303

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2024
Current Status: Answered by Emma Roddick on 16 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it provided to Dornoch and District Christian Fellowship since 2019.

Question reference: S6O-03113

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of its current relationship with local authorities.

Question reference: S6W-25295

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2024
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 14 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Barbara Koerner Memorial Trust since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24908

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Craigo Community Association since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24910

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to The Poverty Alliance since 2019.

The Scottish Government has provided The Poverty Alliance with funding to support a number of initiatives aimed at ensuring that the insights of people who have lived experienced of poverty inform policy and delivery. This is in addition to funding for the Living Wage Scotland Accreditation and Recognition Project which aims to increase the number of workers in Scotland receiving a pay increase to the real Living Wage, increase the number of Living Hours accredited employers, support policy development and grow the Living Wage movement.

Additional payments were also made to procure the development of guidance, venue hire and catering, travel expenses and the delivery of workshops.

Due to the volume of information, full detail of objectives for grant funding from 2019 onwards has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre under Bib. number 64875.

Question reference: S6W-24907

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Miss Isabel Harvey Charitable Trust since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24916

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Emma Roddick on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to Diversitay since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24904

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Emma Roddick on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Centre for Inclusive Living Perth and Kinross since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-24917

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Emma Roddick on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the National Prayer Breakfast for Scotland since 2019.