Local authorities have reported that in 2021-22 103 play park renewals were completed with a further 82 renewals in progress. The following table shows how many play parks were renewed in each local authority in 2021-22. Local authorities will report at the end of the financial year on the number of play parks renewed in 2022-23.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-17054 on 16 January 2015 for costs between 2010 and 2013. 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 .

All Ministerial engagements for this time period, including Bute House costs for 2007-8, are available here Ministerial Events (webarchive.org.uk) and Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Please see the following table showing the number of events and total costs for 2015 to 2022. Complete financial records are only held by Scottish Government for 7 years therefore total costs are only available from 2015.

The First Minister wrote an open letter to the Care Experienced community on the 22 October 2022 to thank all involved in preparing the Who Cares? Scotland publication and to acknowledge the points raised. The letter is available on the Scottish Government website . The Scottish Government continues to work closely with Who Cares? Scotland and the points identified in the publication are informing the ongoing work to Keep The Promise.

The Implementation Plan sets out our commitment to ensure the voice of people with care experience is at the heart of the work we do to Keep The Promise and we welcome all opportunities to engage. We will continue to work with local government, local Champions Boards, Who Cares? Scotland, The Promise Scotland and other partners to ensure that our approach to engagement is positive and impactful.

The Promise Bill will be introduced to Parliament before the end of this Parliamentary session to make any further legislative changes required to Keep The Promise.

The National Transition Training Fund was operational from October 2020 until August 2022. Within this period 885 training places were made available across a number of projects focused on social care. This number excludes college data from the 2021-22 academic year as this data is included within official Further Education Statistics (FES) due to be published in February. A report on the second and final year of NTTF will be published following the publication of FES data, and the college data will be included in the final published report.

The investments made to date from the Recycling Improvement Fund have the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by 32,104 tonnes each year.

With support from Zero Waste Scotland, local authorities submit estimated greenhouse gas emission reduction figures, where available, for each project as part of the Fund’s assessment process. These figures are regularly reviewed during project implementation as part of the Fund’s monitoring processes, and as a result there may be variation in these figures as individual projects progress.

The Scottish Government is currently undertaking a thorough review of its options in relation to collecting data on secondary breast cancer in Scotland, taking consideration of clinical time required and how it can be used to improve services. We are currently in dialogue with Public Health Scotland, NHS England and the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership alongside breast cancer specialists and the Third Sector.

National Records of Scotland (NRS) will release the 2022 census outputs in phases. NRS are currently consulting with data users on the outputs from Scotland's Census 2022, including plans for publishing census data. NRS are asking users to give their views on the order and sequencing of topics published.

The current working plan for the first release of Census 2022 data is to deliver rounded population estimates approximately one year from the end of the Census data collection period. Further phases of census data publications will then follow with the current intention being to release data on languages in the second phase.

The Scottish Government is committed to keeping The Promise by 2030. It is recognised that the experience of growing up in care can impact you for all of your life. Providing the right support to people with care experience through our Whole Family Wellbeing approach and the range of work identified in the Promise Implementation Plan including trauma informed training, corporate parenting, education and employment.

The Implementation Plan sets out our commitment to ensure the voice of people with care experience is at the heart of the work we do to keep The Promise.