- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 December 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Fairlie on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many existing croft houses have been brought back into use through the Croft House Grant Scheme for each year since 2016, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information as requested is not available.
The house improvement option enables crofters to make both minor and significant improvements to their croft house. In 2023, we introduced energy efficiency measures, allowing crofters to apply for 80% grants of up to £38k, to improve the energy performance of their property and contribute to energy cost savings.
Area * | Croft House Grant Funding Awarded for House Improvements since 2016 (£) |
Argyll | 239,281.54 |
Barra | 143,442.68 |
Caithness | 78,416.36 |
Harris | 72,473.60 |
Inverness | 34,717,60 |
Lewis | 622,726.37 |
North Uist | 68,473.20 |
Ross-shire | 84,022.80 |
Shetland | 263,077.61 |
Skye | 440,124.36 |
South Uist | 232,556.44 |
Sutherland | 379,751.92 |
*Figures are broken down by the Rural Payments and Inspections Division by area not by local authority area.
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 December 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus Robertson on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to enable Creative Scotland to allocate more funding to projects in the Highlands and Islands region.
Answer
The Scottish Government has committed a further £34m to the culture sector next financial year. This includes an additional £20 million for Creative Scotland’s multi-year funding programme. This will enable Creative Scotland to roll-out its multi-year funding programme from April 2025 – ensuring that the highest ever number of artists and organisations across Scotland including in the Highlands and Islands region receive regular funding. The Culture Collective programme will also be restarted which will benefit Scottish communities, community organisations, individual artists and freelancers.
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 December 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus Robertson on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to enable the five National Performing Companie to increase the number of events that they host in the Highlands and Islands region.
Answer
The Scottish Government has committed a further £700k to the National Performing Companies this financial year and will provide an additional £1m as part of the £34m increase to culture sector funding next financial year. This will take them to the highest level of funding since 2010-11. This will enable the National Performing Companies to maintain and develop their productions across Scotland.
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 December 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus Robertson on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many productions organised by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra have taken place in (a) the Highlands and Islands region and (b) nationally in each year since 2021.
Answer
Since January 2021 the Scottish Chamber Orchestra has undertaken the following number of engagements in Scotland and in the Highlands and Islands:
Financial Year | No of total engagements across Scotland | No of engagements in Highlands and Islands | Details of engagements in Highlands and Islands |
2021-2022 | 72 | 1 | Inverness Family Concert |
2022-2023 | 101 | 17 | Elgin, Inverness*2, Drumnadrochit, Ballachulish, Kingussie, Findhorn and residency Shetland -10 engagements involving children from toddlers to secondary school pupils. |
2023-2024 | 98 | 5 | Kinlochleven, Findhorn, Fort Augustus, Elgin, Oban |
2024-2025 | 103 | 7 | Inverness*4, Thurso, Findhorn, Kinlochleven |
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 December 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus Robertson on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many productions organised by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra have taken place in (a) the Highlands and Islands region and (b) nationally in each year since 2021.
Answer
Since April 2021 the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has undertaken the following number of productions in Scotland and in the Highlands and Islands region:
Financial year | No of productions in Scotland | No of productions within Highlands and Islands | Details of engagements in Highlands and Islands |
2021-2022 | 71 | 0 | Inverness concert cancelled due to Omicron (Jan 2022) |
2022-2023 | 105 | 1 | Viennese Gala - Inverness |
2023-2024 | 106 | 1 | Viennese Gala - Inverness |
2024-2025 | 88 | 2 | Viennese Gala – Inverness, 09-01-2025 When Fish Began to Crawl – Inverness 28-01-2025 |
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to reduce any inequality within women’s cardiac health, in light of research from the British Heart Foundation, which shows that women are 50% more likely than men to receive the wrong initial diagnosis for a heart attack.
Answer
We made clear commitments to tackling the inequalities faced by women with heart disease in our Women’s Health Plan, published in August 2021. Actions taken and progress are outlined in the Women's health plan 2021 to 2024: final report - gov.scot.
Our ambition is that women and girls enjoy the best possible health, throughout their lives. This remains the ambition of the Scottish Government, and will continue to be our guiding principle as we develop the next phase of the Women’s Health Plan.
Any future priorities will be determined in partnership with our stakeholders.
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to data from the British Heart Foundation showing that, in Scotland, women are less likely to undergo angiography, receive revascularisation therapies and receive potentially lifesaving medications when they leave hospital.
Answer
We thank researchers at the University of Aberdeen and the Keele Cardiovascular Research Group for their important contribution to understanding sex disparities in care and outcomes across Scotland amongst men and women admitted for heart attacks.
We will continue to engage with women and girls, clinicians, academics and the third sector to explore the drivers and solutions to disparities in care for women with heart disease as we develop the next phase of the Women’s Health Plan.
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has commenced and/or commissioned a full multi-agency prevalence study as set out in recommendation 2 in the Policy Report: Sexual exploitation of children involved in the Children's Hearings System by Barnardo's Scotland and the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) in 2020.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-32827 on 16 January 2025. 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: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-21099 by Jenni Minto on 19 September 2023, how many of its pharmacist pre-registration training places were (a) available and (b) filled on 31 December (i) 2019, (ii) 2020, (iii) 2021, (iv) 2022, (v) 2023 and (vi) 2024.
Answer
The following table shows the number of pre-registration training places available and filled on each of the requested dates.
Date | Posts Available | Posts Filled |
31 December 2019 | 200 | 200 |
31 December 2020 | 215 | 215 |
31 December 2021 | 235 | 214 |
31 December 2022 | 235 | 223 |
31 December 2023 | 235 | 216 |
31 December 2024 | 220 | 213 |
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many community pharmacies there were in NHS (a) Highland, (b) Grampian, (c) Orkney, (d) Shetland and (e) Western Isles areas on 31 December (i) 2021, (ii) 2022, (iii) 2023 and (iv) 2024.
Answer
The number of community pharmacies in each Health Board requested are shown in the following table.
NHS Board | (i) 2021 | (ii) 2022 | (Iii) 2023 | (iv) 2024 |
(a) Highland | 132 | 132 | 131 | 130 |
(b) Grampian | 83 | 85 | 83 | 81 |
(c) Orkney | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
(d) Shetland | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
(e) Western Isles | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |