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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-10809

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08901 by Neil Gray on 22 June 2022, how many Ukrainian refugees have been removed from accommodation against their will.

No displaced people from Ukraine have been removed from accommodation against their will.

Our absolute priority is ensuring the wellbeing and safety of displaced people from Ukraine. The Scottish Government is working to ensure that there is temporary accommodation available in cities where people may arrive late at night. This, as well as the temporary nature of some of the hotel availability means that in some cases, people will be requested to move into other accommodation. The Scottish Government is working to support people to move into longer-term accommodation.

Question reference: S6W-10810

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to engage with the UK Government on its X-UK acquisitions programme 2022-27 in relation to supporting artists in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-10569

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the reported benefits of theatre education experiences for children and young people, how many pupils have been able to watch a theatrical performance in school or as part of a field trip in each of the last five years.

The Scottish Government does not hold figures on the total number of pupils that have been able to watch to a theatrical performance. However, the five National Performing companies have provided the following data of pupil attendance in-person at performances in schools and as part of school field trips:

Performing Company	2017-2018	2018-2019	2019-2020	2020-2021	2021-2022	Total
Royal Scottish National Orchestra	2,703	5,955	416	46,537	68,916	124,527
National Theatre of Scotland	16,103	19,756	13,318	30,822	30,175	110,174
Scottish Opera	15,780	16,133	17,394	37,400	37,432	124,139
Scottish Ballet	-	827	1750	-	1215	3,792
Scottish Chamber Orchestra	1750	1750	750	3500	3500	11,250
Total	36,336	44,421	33,628	118,259	141,238	373,882

Question reference: S6W-10548

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to publish the evidence review of muirburn being carried out by SAC Consulting.

Question reference: S6W-10538

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many civil servants were directed to work on the (a) development of the Islands Bond and (b) Islands Bond consultation process.

Question reference: S6W-10230

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many Afghan refugees have arrived in Scotland since 2021, and, of those, how many are currently in (i) permanent and (b) temporary accommodation.

Under current constitutional arrangements in the United Kingdom immigration, including the Afghan resettlement schemes, are reserved to the UK Government and handled by the Home Office.

The UK Government has published statistics on the number of people who have arrived in the UK under the Afghan resettlement schemes since 2021, and have committed to providing more detailed data in their quarterly immigration statistics. Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The latest published data (25 August) shows that across the UK 9,667 people are in temporary accommodation and 7,385 people are in settled accommodation. This does not include people who have made their own accommodation arrangements.

Question reference: S6W-10954

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a list of the current members of the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund Investment Panel.

The membership of the panel is agreed between Scottish Government and COSLA and consists of a number of organisational representatives. A list of those organisations and current members is as follows.

Scottish Government David Cowan (Co-Chair)

COSLA Calum Lindsay (Co-Chair)

SURF Scotlands Regeneration Forum Laura Black

Scottish Futures Trust Mhairi Donaghy

Highlands & Islands Enterprise Douglas Cowan

South of Scotland Enterprise Bryan McGrath

Scottish Enterprise Gillian Adam

SOLACE – (Chief Executives) Russell McCutcheon

SLAED (Economic Development) John McCrone

HoP ( Planning) Beverley Smith

Directors of Finance vacant

Question reference: S6W-10972

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much was (a) budgeted for and (b) spent from the Tenant Grant Fund, broken down by each year that the Fund has been in operation.

The Tenant Grant Fund was a £10 million fund with each local authority receiving a share. The latest set of full available data, provides an overview of Tenant Grant Fund spend as of 31 December 2021, by local authority area. This was published in March 2022 and is available here - Tenant Grant Fund monitoring report: January 2022 .

The next set of data will cover the three month period up to 31 March 2022 and will be published once all 32 local authorities have provided the relevant information and analysis has been carried out.

To date, data up to 31 March 2022 detailing expenditure, grant and refusal figures have been obtained for 28 local authorities. This shows £5,143,119.56 expenditure, 4,430 grants and 1,326 refusals.

As the fund has been expanded and local authorities will continue to use any remaining allocation in 2022-23 until fully spent, a final review will be carried out once all LAs have closed their funds.

Question reference: S6W-10957

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to its proposals on Transforming Our Economy, included in the Programme for Government 2022-23, when it expects to have completed its work "with the business community to identify further measures that can assist in addressing the increased costs and economic disruption that they face", and when it will publish the conclusions of this work.

We regularly engage with businesses and over recent months this engagement has focussed on the difficulties businesses are facing in the current cost crisis and the lack of concrete action from the UK Government.

We continue to press the UK Government to use their reserved powers to help ease the current pressures, including expansion of shortage occupation lists, a VAT reduction on SME energy bills and an extension of the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.

In the meantime we are continuing to work across government to consider a range of options to help businesses through these difficult times within the powers we possess.

Question reference: S6W-10963

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the responses to its consultation, The use of dogs to control foxes and other wild mammals in Scotland.