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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-16314

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 11 April 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it provided to (a) Historic Scotland and (b) Historic Environment Scotland in each year since 2007.

Details of Scottish Government funding for Historic Scotland, from 2007-08 until it became part of Historic Environment Scotland, can be found in the following table. These figures come from the annual Scottish Budget publication.

Year	Historic Scotland Funding £m
2007-08	47.7
2008-09	51.7
2009-10	49.3
2010-11	49.8
2011-12	47.0
2012-13	45.3
2013-14	43.6
2014-15	37.8
2015-16	40.1

Details of the Scottish Government funding for provided Historic Environment Scotland since 2016-17, the first full year of its accounts, can be found in the following table. These figures come from the annual Scottish Budget publication with the exception of the revised budget in 2020-21 which took account of the effect of pandemic closures on its commercial income.

Year	Historic Environment Scotland Funding £m
2016-17	45.0
2017-18	45.5
2018-19	41.1
2019-20	39.8
2020-21 (pre-pandemic)	42.8
2020-21 (revised)	80.4
2021-22	75.9 (including £20m in COVID consequentials)
2022-23	70.1
2023-24	72.7

Question reference: S6W-16324

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 11 April 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has invested in social care in each year since 2016.

Scottish Government has provided additional funding for social care and integration as set out in the following table.

	£m
2015-16	130
2016-17	380
2017-18	487
2018-19	551
2019-20	711
2020-21	811
2021-22	884
2022-23	1,603

In addition, the Scottish Budget for 2022-23 included a further £125m of social care investment that had been included as part of the Care, Support and Rights lines in previous budgets.

This funding is in addition to funding provided through the Scottish Government's annual local government settlement. The vast majority of funding through the settlement is provided by means of a block grant which cannot be separated into individual service allocations, including social care.

Question reference: S6W-16380

Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 11 April 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what its latest estimate is of the number of (a) dentists, (b) dental practices in total and (c) dental practices carrying out NHS procedures, in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-16272

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 11 April 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential economic impact on Scottish businesses of a reduction in the total Scottish Enterprise budget for 2023-24 compared with 2022-23.

Question reference: S6W-16313

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 11 April 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting Historic Environment Scotland in its efforts to preserve historic buildings.

Question reference: S6W-16288

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 11 April 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce a fund dedicated to filling up potholes.

Question reference: S6W-16257

Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 11 April 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what the average number of private patients per dentist has been in NHS (a) Highland, (b) Orkney, (c) Shetland and (d) Western Isles, in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S6W-16394

Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 11 April 2023

To ask the Scottish Government when it last received data on sea bass stocks in the Solway Firth.

Question reference: S6W-16196

Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 11 April 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many times its relevant department has received correspondence from Audit Scotland regarding the Lochaber Aluminium Smelter in each year since 2016, including 2023 to date.

The Scottish Government has engagement with Audit Scotland in relation to the Lochaber Guarantee and the year end accounts. The outcome of the most recent Consolidated accounts for the 2021-2022 financial year has been published in full on the Scottish Government’s website and the Auditor General has publicly commented on the findings in relation to Lochaber in December 2022 which can be accessed at this link https://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/publications/the-202122-audit-of-the-scottish-government-consolidated-accounts .

The Auditor General has stated at page 12 of the 2021-2022 Audit that:

“I have concluded for 2021-22, the Scottish Government’s approach to setting the level of provision against the potential exposure through the guarantee is reasonable”.

Question reference: S6W-16200

Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 11 April 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on, or estimates it has made of, the number of people who have been employed at Liberty Steel Dalzell in each year since 2016, including 2023.