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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: S5W-14257

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason all grant funding for Voluntary Action Scotland from September 2018 has been stopped.

The decision to cease our funding to Voluntary Action Scotland (VAS) at the end of their current grant period in September 2018 was informed by both the independent evaluation into VAS and the TSIs (published December 2016) and by a subsequent year of engagement during which we held extensive discussions with VAS, TSIs and wider third and public sector partners.

Our overall resource allocation to support TSIs and the network is not being reduced. We are retaining the resource currently supporting VAS for the TSI network, to create flexibility to respond to ambition and collaborative approaches, and to continue to support network support, knowledge and practice sharing.

Our priority is supporting TSIs to deliver against an ambitious vision that puts them at the heart of local decision making and ensures they can support and respond to the needs of local communities.

Question reference: S5W-14258

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much financial support it provided to (a) Voluntary Action Scotland, (b) the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and (c) the third sector interface network in each of the last three years.

The following table details the funding from the Scottish Government’s core Third Sector budget provided to Voluntary Action Scotland, SCVO and the 32 Third Sector Interfaces for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and also funding from the Scottish Government’s core Third Sector budget covering a period of 18 months from 1 April 2017 to 30 September 2018. This does not include funding for specific projects across Scottish Government. Funding beyond 30 September 2018 will be confirmed following agreement of the draft Scottish budget.

Intermediary	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	1 April 2017 – 30 September 2018
Voluntary Action Scotland	£250,000	£255,515	£250,000	£375,000
SCVO	£1,259,934	£1,435,143	£1,327,832	£1,805,858
Third Sector Interface Network (32 TSI’s)	£8,155,094	£8,062,040	£8,188,720	£12,283,080

Question reference: S5W-14259

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much financial support it will provide to (a) Voluntary Action Scotland, (b) the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and (c) the third sector interface network in 2018-19.

Question reference: S5W-14260

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it proposes to allocate to each third sector interface in 2018-19.

The following table details the funding from the Scottish Government’s core Third Sector budget provided to all 32 Third Sector Interfaces covering a period of 18 months from 1 April 2017 to 30 September 2018. Funding beyond 30 September 2018 will be confirmed following agreement of the draft Scottish budget.

Third Sector Interface	1 April 2017 – 30 Sep 2018
Aberdeen	£291,000
Aberdeenshire	£396,000
Angus	£242,000
Argyll and Bute	£392,000
Clackmannanshire	£248,000
City of Edinburgh	£408,000
Dumfries and Galloway	£470,000
Dundee	£240,000
East Ayrshire	£232,000
East Dunbartonshire	£257,000
East Lothian	£254,000
East Renfrewshire	£238,000
Falkirk	£232,000
Fife	£376,000
Glasgow	£575,750
Highland	£854,000
Inverclyde	£239,000
Midlothian	£244,000
Moray	£252,000
North Ayrshire	£310,000
North Lanarkshire	£317,000
Orkney	£249,000
Perth and Kinross	£245,000
Renfrewshire	£248,000
Scottish Borders	£385,000
Shetland	£235,000
South Ayrshire	£260,000
South Lanarkshire	£337,000
Stirlingshire	£228,000
West Dunbartonshire	£243,000
West Lothian	£234,000
Western Isles	£462,000

Question reference: S5W-14239

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 15 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many trains on the Glasgow to (a) Helensburgh and (b) Balloch line have skipped stations in the last 12 months, broken down by month and also expressed as a percentage of all services.

Question reference: S5W-14236

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 15 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will routinely publish ScotRail's performance in relation to station skipping.

Question reference: S5W-14238

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 15 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many rail services have been affected by station skipping in the last 12 months, broken down by month and also expressed as percentage of all services.

ScotRail’s performance is reported by railway industry periods (13 periods in a year) therefore the information is contained below in this format,

Over the last year the number of ScotRail services subject to skip-stopping was 5,980 trains and this equates to 0.78 percent (part of period 10 falls in the 2018 calendar year).

Year/period	FTS	FTS %
1617_11	342	0.6%
1617_12	364	0.6%
1617_13	337	0.6%
1718_01	365	0.6%
1718_02	447	0.8%
1718_03	372	0.6%
1718_04	299	0.5%
1718_05	389	0.7%
1718_06	229	0.4%
1718_07	631	1.1%
1718_08	801	1.4%
1718_09	828	1.4%
1718_10	576	1.1%
Total	5,980	0.78%

The member will be aware that the independent review underway will propose steps for improvement, and aim to reduce the number of incidents of skip-stopping.

Question reference: S5W-14220

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 9 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how, and to what level, it will capitalise the Scottish Investment Bank.

Question reference: S5W-14217

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 9 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Investment Bank will provide export financing for SMEs.

Export financing is a matter currently reserved to the UK Government. However Scottish Development International work closely with UK Export Finance (UKEF) and the Enterprise Agencies and their partners to ensure that Scottish companies benefit fully from the financial products available.

The Scottish Government believes that more needs to be done to ensure that Scottish businesses get their fair share of opportunities. For example, the newly established Scottish Trade Board has specifically identified actions to be taken forward around export finance.

Question reference: S5W-14219

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 9 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Investment Bank will operate independently of ministers, and how it will be structured.