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This information is not held by the Scottish Government. Although there is no statutory accreditation for energy efficiency installers, our Quality Assurance policy statement, which was published on 7 June, included information on the standards, skills and certification required for installers.

Police Scotland continue to develop international partnerships with law enforcement authorities and support agencies to assist with investigations into human trafficking and exploitation offences and support for victims.

Development of those partnerships remains an operational matter for the Chief Constable of Police Scotland.

The Stonemasonry Short Life Working Group held its initial meeting in May 2022 and has since met three further times, with the most recent meeting held on 4 November 2022. After the next scheduled meeting in January 2023, the Stonemasonry Short Life Working Group intends to report to the Our Place in Time Skills and Expertise Group by the end of January 2023 with an outline of what actions are required to put stonemasonry training in Scotland in a sustainable position. Additionally, in order to provide an independent review of 2022-23 Scottish Stonemasonry Skills & Training needs, four stakeholder stonemasonry training workshops have taken place across November and December 2022.

The Scottish Government is clear that there is no place for harassment or abuse in any form in the workplace and that everyone has the right to go to work without fear of intimidation.

Equality Law and Employment Law, are reserved to the UK Parliament. In the absence of powers over employment law, the Scottish Government will do all it can within devolved powers to promote and embed fair and inclusive working practices. We encourage all employers to have in place robust workplace policies for preventing and handling issues such as bullying or harassment.

On 9 December 2022 we published a refreshed Fair Work Action Plan which brings together our original Fair Work, Gender Pay Gap and Disabled People’s Employment action plans, along with the actions from our new Anti-Racist Employment Strategy . It takes forward the next phase of actions to drive forward Fair Work and will make it easier for employers and partners to access information on the critical role Fair Work has to play in achieving positive economic benefits on an individual and collective level. The action plan highlights the issue of sexual harassment at work and offers a case study in the Equally Safe initiative funded by Scottish Government.

The Scottish Government’s Fair Work First approach asks employers in receipt of public sector funding to commit to Fair Work criteria, including ‘action to tackle the gender pay gap’ and ‘offer of flexible and family friendly working from day one of employment’. Going forward we will ensure relevant guidance includes good practice and signposting to advice and tools for employers on preventing and tackling sexual harassment at work, such as the Close the Gap Equally Safe at Work resource.

The Scottish Government provides grant funding to HIAL to operate the entire business, comprising all airports and a range of corporate and support functions. We do not hold information broken down by airport and by corporate function. I have asked HIAL to write to Mr McArthur to see if it can provide more detailed information

The information you have requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all children and young people receive at least two hours of physical education per school week in primary schools, and at least two 50-minute periods of physical education per school week in secondary schools - between secondaries 1 and 4.

Under the provisions of Curriculum for Excellence schools and education authorities have the flexibility to decide upon the content of their lessons at the local level by taking into account the needs and circumstances of all children and young people in attendance. This includes taking decisions locally about the content of their PE lessons, where they can offer swimming lessons to their pupils if they wish to do so.

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland indicate that as of the end of November 2022, a total of 3,444 referrals have been made to the charity’s long COVID Support Service since its inception in February 2021.

Scottish Government funding of £156,924 has been made available to Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland to support the continuation and development of the service over 2022-23. This funding has not been drawn from the long COVID Support Fund.

The Scottish Government meets regularly with NHS Lothian in relation to their current status on the NHS board performance escalation framework, this involves the Board working through and reporting progress against a formal Recovery Plan that covers all the BAA recommended actions.

Of the 36 BAA recommendations that NHS Lothian are progressing 81% have been completed. The remaining recommendations are well in progress with NHS Lothian ensuring that these are fully embedded with the evidence to support that prior to considering them as completed. All of the urgent recommendations are complete, over 70% of the high status recommendations are complete and almost 80% of the medium status recommendations are complete.

The Scottish Government continue to work to support and monitor the progress towards the completion of the remaining recommendations.

The Scottish Government supports the development of Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage as a decarbonisation infrastructure for hard to decarbonise sectors. Its deployment must enable decarbonisation at pace and cannot be used to justify unsustainable levels of fossil fuel extraction or impede Scotland’s just transition to net zero. Scottish planning policy states that the construction of new thermal generation power stations may be acceptable where that proposal includes or commits to carbon capture and storage. Any application made to the Scottish Ministers for the construction and operation of such power stations in Scotland is determined on a case-by-case basis, taking into account responses from key consultees and representations made by members of the public, and in light of careful consideration of the benefits and environmental impacts of the proposal.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-13019 on 16 December 2022. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers .