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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-26023

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2024
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25697 by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 March 2024, how many projects in the Cowdenbeath constituency have received Regeneration Capital Grant funding since it was established, and how much each project received.

The Regeneration Capital Grant Fund has supported four projects in the Cowdenbeath constituency since the fund was established as detailed in the following table:

Project Name	Location	Grant awarded £
Lochgelly Regional Cycling Circuit - Community Use Building	Lochgelly	300,000
Lochgelly Town House Development Site	Lochgelly	550,000
Stenhouse Street Community Centre (now called the Maxwell Centre)	Cowdenbeath	300,000
Town House Community Hub - Inverkeithing	Inverkeithing	475,000
Total for Cowdenbeath Constituency		1,625,000

Question reference: S6W-26027

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2024
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25697 by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 March 2024, what criteria are used for awarding funding through the Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme.

Applications to the Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme (VDLIP) are assessed by an Independent Panel against:

the basic eligibility criteria;
ability to meet the aims and objectives of the programme;
readiness to make use of available grant; and
wider strategic fit.

Information on the eligibility criteria, aims and objectives for VDLIP can be found here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/vacant-and-derelict-land-investment-programme/pages/overview/ .

Question reference: S6W-26025

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2024
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25697 by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 March 2024, how the remaining £22.8 million of the £45.8 million of funding for 2024-25 will be split between the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund and the Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme.

Question reference: S6W-26026

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2024
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25697 by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 March 2024, how many projects in the Cowdenbeath constituency have received funding through the Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme since it was established, and how much each project received.

Question reference: S6W-26024

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2024
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25697 by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 March 2024, what criteria will be used in the forthcoming round of Regeneration Capital Grant funding.

Question reference: S6O-03218

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the culture secretary has had with ministerial colleagues regarding what cultural events and activities it has planned to mark the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike.

Question reference: S6W-25859

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 5 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what engagement it has had with the operators at Mossmorran on future plans to reduce emissions.

As a responsible government, we meet periodically with large industrial operators, such as those at Mossmorran, to discuss operational as well as forward looking matters focused on sustainability and decarbonisation.

To date we have had conversations with both Exxon Mobil and Shell about their participation in the Acorn Project and as part of the wider Scottish cluster, which they see as a key project to unlocking significant carbon reductions across the site.

Later this month I will be visiting the Mossmorran site to hear more about these decarbonisation plans.

Question reference: S6W-25697

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2024
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government when the next round of Regeneration Capital Grant funding will open to applications, and how much funding will be made available.

Funding to support place-based regeneration programmes has been set at £45.8 million for 2024-2025, of which £23 million is required to meet contractual commitments for existing Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF) and Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme (VDLIP) projects.

Ministers are considering options for distribution of the remaining regeneration capital budget allocation for 2024-2025 and we will clarify how this will be allocated in due course.

Question reference: S6O-03173

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the improvement plan for the Fife Circle railway line.

Question reference: S6W-25407

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 February 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 27 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to mark the 40th anniversary of the miners' strike in Scotland.

The Miners' Strike of 1984-85 is considered to be the most bitter industrial dispute in living memory. The Scottish Government recognises that the impact of the strike still runs deep in Scotland's former mining heartlands. Scotland is at the forefront across the UK in recognising the need to provide reconciliation, dignity and comfort to those communities still affected. That is why the Scottish Government brought forward legislation to provide a symbolic pardon to miners and other participants in the strike in relation to various offences committed during the dispute. We also continue to call on the UK Government to undertake a full UK-wide public inquiry into the strike.

The Scottish Government is therefore considering how best to raise the profile of the strike and its legacy in former mining communities, as the 40th anniversary of the dispute approaches.