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The Scottish Government, in preparation for it's Paper " A caring compassionate and Human Rights Informed Drug Policy for Scotland" published on July 7th 2023, researched a wide range of sources and consulted with a number of international partners to learn what other models of drug policy exist and what the evidence is for their efficacy. This included administrations who have fully or partially regulated their markets for drugs. We will continue to learn from best practice around the world to ensure Scottish Government Policies are based on the best evidence available.

Due to its volume, the requested data regarding the Private Rented Sector Landlord Loan Scheme has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre bib number 64462.

Due to its volume, the requested data regarding the Private Rented Sector Landlord Loan Scheme has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre bib number 64462.

As set out in the answer to question S6W-17996 on 30 May 2023, due to budgetary pressures we are unable to provide a capital funding package to support the SEC’s proposed expansion package. To date there have also been no further approaches nor discussion with the SEC management team on this issue since it was raised with the Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture in April 2022. However, we continue to engage with the SEC and others on how the national event strategy review can build on the industry’s success, and deliver on government priorities. 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 .

Due to its volume, the requested data regarding the Private Rented Sector Landlord Loan Scheme has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre bib number 64462.

The Scottish Government greatly values our culture sector and the fundamental part it plays in our everyday lives, our national identity, and how we present ourselves to the world. The sector receives significant annual funding from the Scottish Government. We know that this is a worrying time for the sector as organisations recover from the pandemic and deal with the impacts of Brexit and the cost of living and operating crisis.

Our work to support this recovery is ongoing and we will continue to work with the sector to identify barriers to recovery, and do everything within our powers and resources to help those most affected by current economic challenges.

The Scottish Government’s ability to respond to the current financial context is limited due to overall UK Government cuts and by the financial restrictions of devolution, requiring extremely hard funding decisions to be made across the budget.

Funding provided to each Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP) for 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 is available at: Alcohol and Drug Partnerships: funding allocations - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

The Scottish Government’s direct, recurring funding to support ADP projects is transferred to NHS Boards via their baseline allocations for onward delegation to Integration Authorities (IAs) to be invested, in their entirety, through ADPs. Where there is more than one IA, the level of funding is agreed jointly by the IAs within the Health Board area. Scottish Government provides details of what the ADP allocation of this funding would be using the NRAC formula as an indication of funding at the ADP level. However, precise allocations are a matter for Integration Authorities as the information requested is not held centrally.

Programme funding to ADPs is also transferred via NHS Boards, however, Scottish Government provide the level of funding for each IA that the Board delegates.

Funding transferred in 2022-23 is shown in Table 1. In 2022-23, a total of £106.8m was available to Alcohol and Drugs Partnerships – up on the previous year.

Due to a significant increase in reserves carried forward from previous years, ADPs utilised unspent reserves in 2022-23. ADP funding requirements were fully met in 2022-23, through the use of both unspent reserves and in year funding allocation.

Table 1: Funding transferred to Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs) for financial year 2022-23

The Scottish Government is committed to land reform and improving transparency of those who own and control land in Scotland is at the heart of our land reform objectives. The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 introduced the Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land (RCI). The policy intention of the RCI is to ensure there can no longer be categories of land owner or tenant where, intentionally or otherwise, control of decision-making is obscured.

As well as the RCI, we fully supported UK wide emergency legislation in the UK Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act, introduced following the invasion of Ukraine last year, to improve transparency of overseas entities who own land in Scotland and elsewhere in the UK through the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE).

Communities have a number of rights in terms of community ownership. There are four separate community rights to buy, most of which are compulsory purchase rights, as well as the right to request an asset transfer of an asset from a public body.

In addition, the Scottish Land Fund, which was increased to £11m this year, is available to community groups across Scotland, whether they are acquiring an asset through any of these rights, or entering into a negotiated sale with a willing seller. We have committed to increasing this to £20m by the end of 2026.

The Scottish Government Community Land Team regularly assist community groups with guidance on the rights to buy, whilst the Community Empowerment Team can help with asset transfer rights.

The Scottish Government also provides grants to Community Land Scotland to promote and educate community groups on all aspects of community ownership. This includes the annual Community Land Week which allows anyone to go along to a participating community group and see for themselves the benefits that ownership can bring.

Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) does not record this information formally as it is not required for the licence return to NatureScot.