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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-10104

Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 24 August 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many young people in Dundee have been offered workplace opportunities through the Young Person’s Guarantee since its launch.

Data on outcomes is currently published at national level. From our latest publication ( May 2022 ), 5,224 (31%) of the 16,859 people that started receiving support under No One Left Behind between April 2019 and December 2021 entered employment. Of those entering employment, 2,722 (52%) were supported by a subsidy to do so (this includes ERIs) and 832 (16%) started a Modern Apprenticeship.

Data on people receiving employability support delivered under the No One Left Behind strategic approach are currently published as experimental statistics which means they are still going through a process of development. Scottish Government analysts are working closely with Local Government partners to further develop these data, ensuring alignment with the Shared Measurement Framework, and will continue to review the content of what data and breakdowns are released in the future as part of the process to move towards official statistics status.

Question reference: S6F-01289

Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 June 2022

To ask the First Minister, as the end of Pride month approaches, whether she will provide an update on the implementation of Scotland's reportedly world leading LGBT Inclusive Education.

Question reference: S6W-08643

Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the (a) £349 million spare room subsidy and (b) £80.4 million welfare reforms mitigation has been allocated to Dundee City in each year from 2017-18 to 2022-23.

Scotland has budgeted £429.4 million in total for Discretionary Housing Payments since DHPs were devolved in 2017 to the 2022-23 financial year. This is broken down into £349 million for mitigation of the bedroom tax and £80.4 million for mitigating the impact of other welfare reforms. From that national figure, £16,369,752 has been allocated to Dundee City in total for DHPs which includes (a) £13,407,801 for bedroom tax and (b) £2,961,950 for “Other DHP”, used to mitigate welfare reforms.

SG funding for DHPs for Dundee City 2017-18 to 2022-23

Year	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	Total
Bedroom Tax Budget	£1,890,097	£1,997,619	£1,962,771	£2,220,151	£2,758,235	£2,578,928	£13,407,801
Other DHPs	£444,520	£420,079	£427,962	£813,391 1	£427,185	£428,813 2	£2,961,950
Full Budget	£2,334,617	£2,417,698	£2,390,733	£3,033,542	£3,185,421	£3,007,741	£16,369,752

Note: These figures do not include administration funding

1. Figure includes a share of additional £8m of Covid-support funds

2. Figure does not yet include additional support committed for benefit cap mitigation in 2022-23.

Question reference: S6O-01139

Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what services the £10,500 tariff provided by the UK Government for local authorities to support displaced Ukrainians arriving in Scotland is expected to cover.

Question reference: S6O-01011

Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 April 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its discussions with the UK Government regarding food security and supply.

Question reference: S6W-07802

Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Kate Forbes on 31 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on when it plans to publish the findings of the City Centre Recovery Task Force.

The Scottish Government with Scotland’s seven cities established the City Centre Recovery Task Force in 2021 to identify innovative actions for city centre recovery. I am pleased to confirm that the Task Force has published its report today, and sets out the areas and the actions that the Task Force has jointly agreed to prioritise.

The Scottish Government has this financial year allocated £6m to our City Centre Recovery Fund, to enable local authorities to take forward local priorities in line with those identified by the Task Force.

Our cities are economic drivers for Scotland and play a key role in our vision of a wellbeing economy. As we focus on recovery from the pandemic, we all want to encourage even more people to return and safely enjoy all that our city centres offer.

Question reference: S6O-00950

Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc.

Question reference: S6O-00827

Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to people at risk of alcohol harm in the most disadvantaged communities.

Question reference: S6O-00801

Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its action to decarbonise buses.

Question reference: S6O-00747

Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported calls for the Head of the Civil Service to investigate and rule on the deployment of Scottish Government civil servants to develop policy on independence.