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The following answer was corrected on 15 May 2013

 John Swinney: The Scottish Government’s greener marketing campaigns help change behaviours which impact on carbon emissions. This, in turn, helps Scotland achieve its climate change targets of a 42 per cent reduction in CO2 by 2020 and an 80% reduction by 2050.

Campaign results include:

76 per cent of those who saw the Travel & Transport campaign were willing to leave their car for shorter journeys.

95 per cent of those who interacted with the Eat In Season campaign went on to cook or eat in season food.

The Scottish Government has tendered contracts for a number of marketing services to deliver the campaigns.

These are Marketing Communications, Public Relations, Research and Direct Marketing.

The following table gives the information requested.

Published details of Scottish Government marketing spend can be found here: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/People/Directorates/Communications/advertising-marketing/spend

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-13907 on 26 April 2013. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Barnett consequentials accrue to the Scottish Block as a whole and it is for Scottish Ministers to decide how to allocate the total resources available to them across devolved spending programmes.

The Scottish Government received £3.4 million in Barnett consequentials over 2013-14 and 2014-15 as a result of additional UK spending on advisory services, which adds to the total budget available to the Scottish Government in these years.

The Scottish Government has announced £7.9 million of funding for advice services to deal with the impact of welfare reform.

On 25 April 2013 it was announced that the Scottish Legal Aid Board would distribute £5.1 million of Scottish Government funding as part of a single programme also incorporating £2.35 million funding from the Money Advice Service. The Scottish Government funded elements of this programme are expected to open for applications on 13 May 2013, when full details of the criteria will be published.

In addition, we have allocated £2.5 million to Citizens Advice Scotland up to March 2015 and have invested £300,000 in a number of other projects in 2012-13.

The Children and Young People Bill will:

Provide enhanced support to kinship carers who obtain an order under section 11(1) of the 1995 Act (which will be deemed a “kinship care order”).

Place a duty on local authorities to ensure that families in the early stages of distress who seek help are provided with appropriate forms of intervention (for example, family group conferencing or support with substance misuse). This will provide more help for those carers who accept long term caring responsibilities for a child This will be available where a child’s wellbeing would be at risk of being impaired and where appropriate, it can be used to promote the role of a kinship carer; and

Place a duty on local authorities to provide a minimum of 600 hours early learning and childcare to three and four year olds, looked after two year olds and two year olds subject to a kinship care order.

The Children and Young People Bill was introduced to Parliament on 18 April. The Bill and accompanying documents have been published on the Scottish Parliament website:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/Bills/62233.aspx

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/People/Young-People/legislation/impact.

Kinship carers of children who are looked after are entitled to financial support from the responsible local authority. A number of local authorities also offer allowances to kinship carers of non-looked after children and those on a section 11 order of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (e.g Residence Order).

The level of kinship care payments are the responsibility of local authorities. The Scottish Government is committed to working with local authorities to ensure that kinship carers receive the support they need.

The Scottish Government is currently reviewing financial support to kinship carers with a view to tailoring support and tackling inconsistencies across Scotland.

The Scottish Government is providing over £13 million for short breaks between 2010-15 to be channelled through the voluntary sector. Organisations such as CHILDREN 1^st, Geeza Break and Kinship for the Future North who support Kinship Carers have benefitted from this fund.

Neither the Scottish Government nor the Care Inspectorate collect information on numbers of foster carers broken down by local authority area.

The Scottish Government understands that in June 2012 members of the State Hospital senior management team received a recruitment and retention premium as part of their remuneration package.

Due to an oversight, payment of the premium was not made at the time it was due. Therefore, this resulted in a back payment being made.

The Scottish Government understands that the State Hospital have asked their internal auditors to report on three anonymous allegations made to NHS Counter Fraud Services.