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Question reference: S6W-17717

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2023
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 16 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Scottish National Party manifesto commitment to spend £275 million via the National Infrastructure Mission on community-led regeneration and town centre revitalisation, whether it will provide a detailed breakdown of how much funding was allocated to (a) associated projects and (b) each local authority.

To deliver this commitment, the Scottish Government established the Place Based Investment Programme (PBIP) in 2021 to accelerate ambitions for place, 20-minute neighbourhoods, town centre action, community led regeneration and community wealth building. This includes the continued delivery of the £25 million per annum Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF), support for Clyde Gateway urban regeneration company to help deliver their 20-year operating plan, and £140 million delivered directly to all local authorities over 5 years.

PBIP funding allocated to each local authority for the first 3 years of the programme 2021- 2023 is provided in the following table: It is up to each local authority how they allocate funding to specific projects, within the terms of the PBIP grant award and related criteria.

Local Authority	Allocation 2021-22 £	Allocation 2022-23 £	Allocation 2023-24 £
Aberdeen City	975,000	847,000	590,000
Aberdeenshire	2,040,000	1,770,000	1,234,000
Angus	720,000	624,000	435,000
Argyll and Bute	821,000	712,000	496,000
City of Edinburgh	1,998,000	1,741,000	1,213,000
Clackmannanshire	512,000	444,000	310,000
Dumfries and Galloway	1,029,000	892,000	622,000
Dundee City	827,000	717,000	500,000
East Ayrshire	1,310,000	1,136,000	792,000
East Dunbartonshire	600,000	522,000	364,000
East Lothian	823,000	717,000	500,000
East Renfrewshire	635,000	553,000	385,000
Falkirk	1,391,000	1,207,000	841,000
Fife	3,163,000	2,748,000	1,915,000
Glasgow City	3,699,000	3,217,000	2,242,000
Highland	1,963,000	1,704,000	1,187,000
Inverclyde	675,000	584,000	407,000
Midlothian	613,000	534,000	372,000
Moray	770,000	668,000	466,000
Na h-Eileanan Siar	134,000	116,000	81,000
North Ayrshire	1,260,000	1,093,000	761,000
North Lanarkshire	2,807,000	2,436,000	1,698,000
Orkney Islands	122,000	106,000	74,000
Perth and Kinross	1,265,000	1,098,000	766,000
Renfrewshire	1,195,000	1,038,000	723,000
Scottish Borders	912,000	791,000	552,000
Shetland Islands	124,000	108,000	75,000
South Ayrshire	797,000	691,000	481,000
South Lanarkshire	2,003,000	1,740,000	1,213,000
Stirling	735,000	638,000	445,000
West Dunbartonshire	780,000	676,000	471,000
West Lothian	1,302,000	1,132,000	789,000
Scotland	38,000,000	33,000,000	23,000,000

Details of the grant awards made to local authorities through the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF) over the first 3 years of PBIP are provided in the following table, with details of the individual projects available on the RCGF webpage .

Local Authority	RCGF Award 2021-22 £	RCGF Award 2022-23 £	RCGF Indicative* Award 2023-24 £
Aberdeen City	1,408,965	Nil	1,900,000
Aberdeenshire	2,577,545	1,458,000	Nil
Angus	Nil	Nil	Nil
Argyll and Bute	2,210,223	1,452,590	1,057,500
City of Edinburgh	2,450,258	4,578,123	2,250,000
Clackmannanshire	90,000	Nil	Nil
Comhairle nan Eileanan Siar	550,000	1,700,000	2,150,000
Dumfries and Galloway	Nil	3,413,889	2,623,000
Dundee City	1,059,305	593,403	Nil
East Ayrshire	Nil	1,745,008	3,141,615
East Dunbartonshire	1,100,000	Nil	950,000
East Lothian	150,000	Nil	Nil
East Renfrewshire	200,000	Nil	Nil
Falkirk	Nil	Nil	Nil
Fife	475,000	1,500,000	Nil
Glasgow City **	8,912,600	6,409,008	5,315,354
Highland	2,067,651	257,000	2,510,000
Inverclyde	2,525,804	1,301,000	Nil
Midlothian	Nil	Nil	Nil
Moray	Nil	Nil	270,200
North Ayrshire	2,114,478	788,000	Nil
North Lanarkshire	2,591,270	1,800,000	215,000
Orkney Islands	Nil	985,460	Nil
Perth and Kinross	1,750,000	Nil	Nil
Renfrewshire	Nil	1,084,000	Nil
Scottish Borders	133,710	Nil	Nil
Shetland Islands	Nil	Nil	Nil
South Ayrshire	729,659	400,000	1,197,440
South Lanarkshire	300,000	Nil	1,775,000
Stirling (Including Raploch URC where applicable)	100,000	Nil	Nil
West Dunbartonshire	Nil	Nil	Nil
West Lothian	Nil	Nil	1,400,000
Scotland	33,496,468	29,465,481	26,755,109

* The 2023-24 RCGF award allocations are currently indicative only and may be subject to change.

** includes Clyde Gateway URC where applicable.

Clyde Gateway awards in £

2021-22	2022-23	2023-24
8,500,000	5,000,000	5,000,000

In 2022-2023 funding was awarded to four place based demonstrator projects as described in the following table:

Local Authority	Project	Award £
Argyle and Bute	Rothesay - Transforming services with the Rothesay community	665,000
Argyle & Bute	Oban – 20 minute neighbourhood hub	110,000
Highland	Caithness - A different way of living, working and learning locally	750,000
Highland	Portree - New build multi-agency co-location, enabling service improvement and multi-site enablement	800,000

Question reference: S6W-17665

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the support and training provided to GPs to recognise the symptoms of Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and related conditions.

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) are responsible for managing all training provided to doctors in Scotland. NES ensure that all doctors receive high quality training in line with curricula that is set by the relevant Medical Royal College so that they are able to demonstrate that they have met all GMC curricular requirements, in order to practise independently as a GP in the UK.

All GP practices receive funding for protected time consisting of one session a month (usually within practice time) to allow GPs to maintain and develop their training and skills, and those of their practice teams. For GPs after their 3-year training, NES provide educational content related to gastroenterological conditions. There are also Practice-Based Small Group Learning modules (PBSGL) covering cancer and gastroenterology cases.

Question reference: S6W-16914

Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 16 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether waste collection companies should be investing in electric vehicles, in light of reports that a competitor, Biffa, has procured 198 petrol and diesel vehicles to provide collection services for the Deposit Return Scheme.

The Scottish Government has provided significant investment to accelerate the shift to zero emission transport and continues to provide a range of support to help businesses and individuals make the switch to electric vehicles. However, Biffa is a private company, and investment decisions in vehicles is a matter for them. It would not be appropriate for the Scottish Government to intervene in such commercial arrangements or provide them with financial advice on its procurement of operating vehicles.

Question reference: S6T-01384

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 15 May 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to reduce violence in schools, in light of reports that three teachers and a 14-year-old pupil have been injured in a disturbance at a Renfrewshire school.

Question reference: S6T-01375

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 15 May 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reported comments made by the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland that the Scottish Government has “absolutely" failed to deliver for children.

Question reference: S6F-02130

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 15 May 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 May 2023

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to a recent poll that found that more than a third of people in Scotland would consider relocating if income taxes were increased further.

Question reference: S6F-02135

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 15 May 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 May 2023

To ask the First Minister for what reason only 4% of Scotland's sewage discharge points are monitored, compared with 91% in England.

Question reference: S6F-02119

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Monday, 15 May 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 May 2023

To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will reintroduce the Social Care Staff Support Fund, or take other action to improve sick pay provision for social care workers, in light of reports of a survey by GMB Scotland stating that 80% of social care workers in the private sector have considered quitting, and wider warnings that the care sector is on the brink of collapse.

Question reference: S6F-02113

Asked by: Kaukab Stewart, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 15 May 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 May 2023

To ask the First Minister whether he will provide an update on the work of the Scottish Government to address potentially dangerous cladding on residential properties.

Question reference: S6F-02111

Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 15 May 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 May 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.