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The Scottish Government contract Corporate Travel Management (CTM) who contract and manage all of the Scottish Government’s hotel bookings. This includes invoicing. We are aware of one hotel recently that indicated a delay in payment of an invoice. CTM colleagues have worked with the hotel manager to resolve this issue.

Any hotel who has concern around a delayed invoice should liaise with CTM. Hotel managers have regular contact with CTM, and contact details are provided where they can raise any concerns. The Scottish Government also chair a weekly call - which all hotel managers are invited to - along with CTM colleagues and our Scottish Government temporary accommodation team. This call provides a further regular opportunity to raise any concerns hotel managers may have with both CTM and the Scottish Government.

Barra, Benbecula and Sumburgh Airports were closed during the strike action on 19 and 22 December 2022 while Kirkwall and Stornoway Airports operated with reduced services.

The cost of responding to these types of incidents or spills are a matter for the public bodies, the relevant authorities, or agencies. The information requested is not held centrally and therefore the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

To Date the Scottish Government has had no contact with the UK Government regarding M&Co entering administration.

The Scottish Government will do everything in its power to help those affected by any possible forthcoming redundancies through our initiative for responding to redundancy situations, Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE). Our PACE team contacted the administrators for M&Co immediately to offer support for any individuals affected by redundancy.

I have also contacted the administrators at Teneo directly and offered to speak with them to discuss the situation.

Information on the 10 most common offences for which (a) men and (b) women in the Highlands and Islands parliamentary region have been sent to prison in each year since 2016-17, broken down by (i) age group and (ii) number of offences; is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre - Bib number 63924.

Please note:

Criminal proceedings data are presented by the main charge which is the one conferring the most severe penalty.

Data for 2020-21 are affected by the pandemic and subsequent court closures and may not be indicative of long term trends.

The latest available data is for 2020-21. Information for 2021-22 will not be available until publication of the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2021-22 Statistical Bulletin. This is due to be published in 2023.

The £31.3 million Building Standards budget for 2023-24 has been allocated for (a) Cladding remediation programme spend of £29.72 million; (b) research and professional advice on the building standards system spend of £0.38 million; (c) other spend of £1.20 million.

In total, £68 million was allocated to local authorities through the Town Centre Fund with £50 million allocated in 2019-20 and £18 million allocated in 2020-21.

We plan to publish this data early this year.

Initial scoping work is being undertaken, and has not yet been completed. This work will be included in the broader considerations of the Housing to 2040 strategic board.

We continue to implement our Heart Disease Action Plan which seeks to ensure that everyone with suspected heart disease has timely and equitable access to diagnosis, treatment and care.

The Network for Inherited Cardiac Conditions Scotland (NICCS) is a National Managed Clinical Network which supports improvements in the diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of people with inherited cardiac conditions (ICC).

Scottish Government are key partners in the Save a Life for Scotland Partnership who are working to deliver the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Strategy 2021 to 2026 . A key aim of this strategy is to increase survival from OHCA to 15% in Scotland by 2026.