- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance to the Finance and Public Administration Committee on 21 November 2023, for what reason it is reportedly no longer funding the delivery of mental health and wellbeing in primary care services.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to questions S6W-23303 on 11 December 2023 and S6W-16651 on 21 April 2023. 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 .
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the letter from the Deputy First
Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance to the Finance and Public
Administration Committee on 21 November 2023, how it plans to support health
and social care partnerships to deliver on its Mental health and wellbeing in primary care services: planning guidance, following its reported decision to no longer provide the funding from the Mental Health Recovery and
Renewal Fund that was previously committed to support such delivery.
Answer
refer the member to the answer to question S6W-23393 on 11 December 2023. 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 .
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W- 21565 by Natalie Don on 4 October 2023, whether it will publish the outcomes of the research by The Lines Between before the end of 2023.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-23892 on14 December 2024. 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 .
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether sportscotland continues to allocate any funding to support the development of a tennis centre at Park of Keir.
Answer
sport scotland’s provisional allocation of up to £5m for the development of a potential tennis facility at Park of Keir remains in place.
However, at this stage, a full application for a tennis facility at Park of Keir has not been received. Any decision on whether to make a capital award and the appropriate level of any award will only be taken on completion of a full application (as outlined in response to S6W-05651 on 20 January 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 .
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it provided to Hayfield Limited in 2022.
Answer
The Scottish Government did not provide any funding to Hayfield Limited in 2022.
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether 8.78% of NHS spend being allocated to mental health services represents a funding shortfall of £180 million per year from its target of 10% of spend.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-23955 on 9 January 2024. 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 .
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it provided to Lochaber Sensory Care in 2022.
Answer
The Scottish Government did not provide any funding to Lochaber Sensory Care in 2022.
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Lorna Slater on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-23788 by Lorna Slater on 15 December 2023, what work (a) had been carried out between December 2021 and June 2023 and (b) is planned to update its Deposit Return Scheme Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment.
Answer
The Scottish Government has worked with Zero Waste Scotland to update relevant impact assessments at each point the Regulations have been updated, most recently for the Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2023 laid in Parliament on 30 June 2023. This updated Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment was shared with Parliament on 11 September 2023 - Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme | Scottish Parliament Website. We plan to update all DRS Impact Assessments again once Defra have confirmed the final design of their scheme
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what the average time taken to process a Hunting with Dogs licence is for (a) preventing serious damage to livestock, woodlands or crops and (b) environmental benefit.
Answer
NatureScot has received eleven applications to-date for a Hunting with Dogs licence for either (a) preventing serious damage to livestock, woodlands, or crops, or (b) environmental benefit. Of these eleven applications, six have not yet been processed as they are either ongoing or NatureScot has requested additional information from the applicant.
The following table relates to five applications which have been deemed to be processed in that they have been received, determined, and the decision letter issued. The time taken to determine the decision may include time that NatureScot were waiting for further information from the applicant.
Applications Granted
Reason for Application | ID | Time taken to determine licence (days) |
Preventing Serious Damage | 250045 | 11 |
Preventing Serious Damage | 252976 | 6 |
Applications Refused
Reason for Application | ID | Time taken to determine licence (days) |
Environmental Benefit | 249031 | 35 |
Environmental Benefit | 248391 | 41 |
Preventing Serious Damage | 237514 | 10 |
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has assessed the potential impact of reallocating funding from the regional improvement collaboratives on the newly-appointed speech and language leads in carrying out their objectives.
Answer
Over the next two years, the Scottish Government is investing in a programme of early intervention in speech and language for children and their families through the appointment of six full-time equivalent Regional Early Speech and Language Leads based within Education Scotland.
The funding is separate from the support that the Scottish Government has provided for the Regional Improvement Collaboratives.