- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 April 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many fires there have been at waste management and/or recycling facilities in each of the last five years.
Answer
Over the past five years, there have been four fires at a battery recycling centre, six at electronic recycling centres, and thirty nine at conventional recycling centres for a total of forty three fires overall.
The following table breaks down these incidents by centre type and year:
Year | Number of Fires |
2020 | 6 |
Recycling Centre | 6 |
2021 | 9 |
Battery Recycling Centre | 2 |
Recycling Centre | 7 |
2022 | 11 |
Electronic Recycling Centre | 1 |
Recycling Centre | 10 |
2023 | 9 |
Electronic Recycling Centre | 2 |
Recycling Centre | 7 |
2024 | 5 |
Battery Recycling Centre | 1 |
Electronic Recycling Centre | 2 |
Recycling Centre | 2 |
2025 | 3 |
Battery Recycling Centre | 1 |
Electronic Recycling Centre | 1 |
Recycling Centre | 1 |
Grand Total | 43 |
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 April 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-24241 by Lorna Slater on 10 January 2024, whether it will provide an updated breakdown of any projects funded through the Recycling Improvement Fund to date showing the (a) expected tonnage increase in recycled material and (b) funding allocated to each project.
Answer
The following table provides the full list of projects funded through the Recycling Improvement Fund with a breakdown of the projected tonnage and funding allocated to each project, for which tonnage increase is a direct impact. N/A indicates projects where recycling tonnage impacts are indirect to the project e.g. in-cab technology for drivers.
Local authority | | | Project ref no | Projected tonnage increase (tonnes per year) | Funding Allocated (£) |
Aberdeen City | | | RIF55 | 500 | 36,450 |
Aberdeen City | | | RIF57 | 27 | 220,000 |
Aberdeen City | | | RIF62 | 1727 | 933,668 |
Aberdeen City | | | RIF89 | 154 | 580,731 |
Aberdeenshire | | | RIF01 | 3310 | 3,848,759 |
Aberdeenshire | | | RIF12 | N/A | 189,086 |
Aberdeenshire | | | SGS008 | 63 | 37,095 |
Aberdeenshire | | | SGS022 | 31 | 82,181 |
Angus | | | RIF84 | 1621 | 2,843,472 |
Argyll & Bute | | | RIF78 | 416 | 891,945 |
City of Edinburgh | | | RIF25 | 9270 | 8,511,465 |
City of Edinburgh | | | SGS003 | 10 | 19,000 |
Clackmannanshire | | | RIF39 | N/A | 29,688 |
Clackmannanshire | | | RIF80 | 931 | 613,578 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | | | RIF72(a) | 90 | 846,012 |
Dumfries and Galloway | | | RIF88 | 4300 | 2,331,405 |
Dumfries and Galloway | | | SGS002 | 12 | 70,759 |
Dundee City | | | RIF49 | 2980 | 87,962 |
Dundee City | | | RIF86 | N/A | 693,383 |
East Ayrshire | | | SGS001 | 155 | 139,843 |
East Ayrshire | | | SGS011 | 155 | 149,980 |
East Lothian | | | RIF02 | 2000 | 2,747,531 |
Falkirk | | | SGS005 | 391 | 149,207 |
Fife | | | RIF08 (b) | 50 | 470,000 |
Fife | | | SGS004 | 2733 | 30,675 |
Glasgow | | | RIF77 | 10139 | 21,202,000 |
Highland | | | RIF21 | 473 | 208,500 |
Highland | | | RIF79 | 5992 | 7,124,894 |
Highland | | | SGS015 | 263 | 135,500 |
Inverclyde | | | SGS018 | 426 | 95,572 |
Midlothian | | | RIF29 | 96 | 132,085 |
Midlothian | | | RIF34 | N/A | 34,100 |
Midlothian | | | RIF85 | 1537 | 2,488,227 |
Moray | | | SGS021 | 36 | 129,705 |
North Ayrshire | | | RIF28a | 220 | 83,603 |
North Ayrshire | | | RIF28b | N/A | 9,067 |
North Lanarkshire | | | RIF81 | 340 | 276,840 |
Orkney | | | SGS007 | 4 | 4,876 |
Perth & Kinross | | | RIF75 | 77 | 2,720,775 |
Perth & Kinross | | | SGS016 | 1250 | 27,933 |
Renfrewshire | | | RIF76 | 1845 | 374,370 |
Renfrewshire | | | RIF87 | 3219 | 756,942 |
South Ayrshire | | | RIF38 | 10 | 256,090 |
South Ayrshire | | | RIF82 | 122 | 166,090 |
South Lanarkshire | | | SGS009 | 73 | 150,000 |
South Lanarkshire | | | SGS020 | 258 | 148,889 |
Stirling | | | RIF65 | 568 | 234,035 |
West Lothian | | | RIF26 | 1124 | 4,047,223 |
Total | | | | 58,997 | 66,662,798 |
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 April 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what research it has conducted to understand the reported barriers to soft plastic recycling.
Answer
Zero Waste Scotland is currently conducting research on soft plastic recycling to understand collection and processing opportunities. The outputs of this research are expected to be available in the summer of 2025.
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 April 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-30798 by Gillian Martin on 7 November 2024, whether the eight schemes stated as withdrawn and the one stated as no longer required were included in the 16 out of 33 remaining schemes marked as complete.
Answer
The eight schemes highlighted in answer S6W-30798 on 7 November 2024 as withdrawn from the cycle one flood protection scheme funding programme, and the one scheme highlighted as no longer required, were not included in the list of 16 schemes complete at that time.
18 schemes are now complete.
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 April 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Kate Forbes on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government on what date MV Glen Sannox was transferred from the Scottish Government back to CMAL as part of its ferry fleet.
Answer
MV Glen Sannox was transferred to CMAL on 20 November 2024.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 April 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to review the operation of temporary traffic regulation orders.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that the system of Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders (TTROs) remains effective and responsive to the needs of local communities and road users. A review of the TRO process was undertaken by Transport Scotland in 2021. While there are no immediate plans to undertake a formal review of the entire TTRO system, we continue to engage with local authorities and stakeholders to monitor its effectiveness.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Paul McLennan on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many times each local authority has breached its legal duty to provide suitable accommodation for homeless people in the last five years.
Answer
The first table shows instances where local authorities are not able to fulfil their legal duties in offering temporary accommodation to households who make a homelessness application, annually for 2019-20 to 2023-24, and for the most recent six months April to September 2024.
Local Authority | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | Apr-Sep 2024 |
Scotland | 4,585 | 595 | 715 | 450 | 7,955 | 7,545 |
Aberdeen City | 10 | 5 | 0 | <4 | <4 | <4 |
Angus | 5 | <4 | <4 | 0 | <4 | 0 |
Clackmannanshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 50 |
East Renfrewshire | 0 | <4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 660 | 530 | 700 | 420 | 1,515 | 1,020 |
Falkirk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <4 | <4 |
Fife | 50 | <4 | 15 | 25 | 140 | 140 |
Glasgow City | 3,830 | 55 | <4 | <4 | 6,270 | 6,320 |
Highland | 35 | 0 | 0 | <4 | 10 | 5 |
Midlothian | 0 | 0 | 0 | <4 | 0 | 0 |
Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <4 |
Scottish Borders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <4 | 0 |
South Lanarkshire | <4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <4 | 10 |
Stirling | 0 | <4 | 0 | 0 | <4 | 0 |
The second table shows instances where unsuitable temporary accommodation placements have been offered and taken up, annually for 2019-20 to 2023-24, and for the most recent six months April to September 2024.
Local Authority | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | Apr-Sep 2024 |
Scotland | 2,060 | 2,345 | 4,790 | 14,275 | 20,230 | 10,780 |
Aberdeen City | <4 | <4 | 0 | 670 | 560 | 230 |
Aberdeenshire | 10 | 60 | 40 | 50 | 25 | 10 |
Angus | 5 | 5 | 10 | 30 | 35 | 40 |
Argyll & Bute | <4 | <4 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 15 |
Clackmannanshire | <4 | <4 | 50 | 125 | 170 | 85 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 230 | 670 | 470 |
Dundee City | 0 | 0 | 140 | 345 | 865 | 345 |
East Dunbartonshire | 5 | <4 | <4 | <4 | 10 | <4 |
East Lothian | 10 | 210 | 280 | 385 | 385 | 135 |
East Renfrewshire | 10 | 55 | 60 | 90 | 245 | 195 |
Edinburgh | 960 | 530 | 1,800 | 3,530 | 4,725 | 3,205 |
Eilean Siar | <4 | <4 | 5 | 5 | 10 | <4 |
Falkirk | <4 | 5 | 15 | 110 | 110 | 65 |
Fife | 5 | 265 | 755 | 690 | 675 | 325 |
Glasgow City | 790 | 460 | 770 | 6,155 | 9,075 | 4,660 |
Highland | 20 | 20 | 40 | 60 | 25 | 15 |
Inverclyde | 10 | 5 | 0 | <4 | 20 | 20 |
Midlothian | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 55 | 35 |
Moray | 0 | 15 | 0 | 115 | 145 | 85 |
Orkney | 0 | 0 | 0 | <4 | 0 | <4 |
Perth & Kinross | 0 | <4 | <4 | 15 | 0 | <4 |
Renfrewshire | 0 | 245 | 30 | 145 | 240 | 90 |
Scottish Borders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 0 |
Shetland | <4 | 0 | <4 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
South Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 310 | 35 |
South Lanarkshire | 20 | 305 | 25 | 270 | 685 | 260 |
Stirling | 20 | 25 | 20 | 35 | 15 | 25 |
West Dunbartonshire | 45 | 20 | 15 | 150 | 260 | 95 |
Breaches of the unsuitable accommodation order occur when a household has spent more than seven days in unsuitable accommodation.
Figures on failures to accommodate and breaches of the unsuitable accommodation order are published on a six-monthly basis as part of the Homelessness in Scotland Statistics series.
Notes:
Local authorities are not presented in the tables where they have zero instances across all time periods.
For disclosure purposes, figures are rounded to the nearest 5, apart from 1,2 and 3, which are rounded to '<4'.
Households can have multiple failure to accommodate and/or unsuitable temporary accommodation placement records and so may appear multiple times in the tables.
Data source: Scottish Government, HL3 Homelessness statistics
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider working with NHS Scotland and NHS boards to ensure that standalone anti-stalking policies are introduced and embedded across the health service, for the protection of staff, volunteers, patients and visitors, in line with the findings and recommendations of the charity, Action Against Stalking.
Answer
The Scottish Government welcomes this report and will fully consider the Action Against Stalking report recommendations and will work in partnership to consider current policy and how recommendations may be taken forward.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many international students have accessed child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in each NHS board area in each year since 1999.
Answer
This data is not held centrally; aggregated data for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Waiting Times is sent to Public Health Scotland from each NHS Board. This data does not contain specific information about the number of young people accessing CAMHS who are international students.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many young people have been removed from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) waiting lists in each NHS board area in each year since 1999.
Answer
This data is not held centrally; aggregated data for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is sent to Public Health Scotland from individual NHS Boards. This data reports on the following:
- number of referrals to CAMHS services;
- numbers waiting to start treatment;
- total waiting;
- numbers starting treatment;
- number of referrals that were not accepted
People who have started treatment, as well as those whose referral has not been accepted, will be removed from the waiting list, in line with the CAMHS Specification. The National CAMHS specification includes a clear expectation that children and young people whose referral is not accepted for CAMHS are sensitively and appropriately signposted to a more suitable service.
CAMHS waiting times statistics are published quarterly by PHS: https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/child-and-adolescent-mental-health-services-camhs-waiting-times/child-and-adolescent-mental-health-services-camhs-waiting-times-quarter-ending-december-2024/