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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S5W-14257

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason all grant funding for Voluntary Action Scotland from September 2018 has been stopped.

The decision to cease our funding to Voluntary Action Scotland (VAS) at the end of their current grant period in September 2018 was informed by both the independent evaluation into VAS and the TSIs (published December 2016) and by a subsequent year of engagement during which we held extensive discussions with VAS, TSIs and wider third and public sector partners.

Our overall resource allocation to support TSIs and the network is not being reduced. We are retaining the resource currently supporting VAS for the TSI network, to create flexibility to respond to ambition and collaborative approaches, and to continue to support network support, knowledge and practice sharing.

Our priority is supporting TSIs to deliver against an ambitious vision that puts them at the heart of local decision making and ensures they can support and respond to the needs of local communities.

Question reference: S5W-14258

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much financial support it provided to (a) Voluntary Action Scotland, (b) the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and (c) the third sector interface network in each of the last three years.

The following table details the funding from the Scottish Government’s core Third Sector budget provided to Voluntary Action Scotland, SCVO and the 32 Third Sector Interfaces for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and also funding from the Scottish Government’s core Third Sector budget covering a period of 18 months from 1 April 2017 to 30 September 2018. This does not include funding for specific projects across Scottish Government. Funding beyond 30 September 2018 will be confirmed following agreement of the draft Scottish budget.

Intermediary	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	1 April 2017 – 30 September 2018
Voluntary Action Scotland	£250,000	£255,515	£250,000	£375,000
SCVO	£1,259,934	£1,435,143	£1,327,832	£1,805,858
Third Sector Interface Network (32 TSI’s)	£8,155,094	£8,062,040	£8,188,720	£12,283,080

Question reference: S5W-14259

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much financial support it will provide to (a) Voluntary Action Scotland, (b) the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and (c) the third sector interface network in 2018-19.

Question reference: S5W-14251

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what (a) grants and (b) loans it has provided to Glasgow Prestwick Airport in each year since 2014.

Question reference: S5W-14260

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it proposes to allocate to each third sector interface in 2018-19.

The following table details the funding from the Scottish Government’s core Third Sector budget provided to all 32 Third Sector Interfaces covering a period of 18 months from 1 April 2017 to 30 September 2018. Funding beyond 30 September 2018 will be confirmed following agreement of the draft Scottish budget.

Third Sector Interface	1 April 2017 – 30 Sep 2018
Aberdeen	£291,000
Aberdeenshire	£396,000
Angus	£242,000
Argyll and Bute	£392,000
Clackmannanshire	£248,000
City of Edinburgh	£408,000
Dumfries and Galloway	£470,000
Dundee	£240,000
East Ayrshire	£232,000
East Dunbartonshire	£257,000
East Lothian	£254,000
East Renfrewshire	£238,000
Falkirk	£232,000
Fife	£376,000
Glasgow	£575,750
Highland	£854,000
Inverclyde	£239,000
Midlothian	£244,000
Moray	£252,000
North Ayrshire	£310,000
North Lanarkshire	£317,000
Orkney	£249,000
Perth and Kinross	£245,000
Renfrewshire	£248,000
Scottish Borders	£385,000
Shetland	£235,000
South Ayrshire	£260,000
South Lanarkshire	£337,000
Stirlingshire	£228,000
West Dunbartonshire	£243,000
West Lothian	£234,000
Western Isles	£462,000

Question reference: S5W-14252

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what impact the recent General Court of the EU (8th Chamber) decision regarding Charleroi Airport and state aid will have on Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

Question reference: S5W-14256

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many expressions of interest to purchase Glasgow Prestwick Airport it has received in each year since 2014, and whether it will provide a breakdown of these.

27 March 2017.

In my response I indicated that the Scottish Government had received and considered a number of approaches from parties expressing an interest in purchasing or investing in the business. I also indicated that any interest is commercially sensitive and it would not be appropriate for the Scottish Government to comment on these.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Question reference: S5W-14188

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of Creative Scotland’s decision to remove its funding, what support it can provide to the Dunedin Consort ensemble.

Question reference: S5W-14399

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12919 by Derek Mackay on 6 December 2017, by what date it will publish the annual procurement report under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.

The Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 requires a public body with significant procurement expenditure to prepare an annual procurement report as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each financial year.

These reports will form the basis of an annual report on procurement activity in Scotland to be published by Scottish Ministers. Financial year 2017-2018 will be the first full year subject to annual procurement reports under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.

Public bodies need to be given sufficient time to prepare and publish their individual annual procurement reports before the Scottish Government carries out a high-level analysis of these reports in preparation for the Scottish Ministers annual report on procurement activity in Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-14388

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 20 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the invoices for goods and services that have been supplied to each of its departments by (a) private companies and (b) SMEs in each year since 1999 has been paid on time.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information broken down by department and it no longer holds data going back as far as 1999. It also does not analyse payments for goods and services to determine whether they have been paid to private companies or SMEs.

However, we have provided in the following table, payment performance data for those invoices that were paid on time, within 30 days of receipt, from April 2012 to date.

Financial Year	Percentage number of invoices paid on time
2012-13	98.9%
2013-14	99.5%
2014-15	99.4%
2015-16	99.7%
2016-17	99.8%
2017-18 (April-January)	99.7%

Year	Loan funding (£m)
2013-14	4.5
2014-15	6.3
2015-16	10.0
2016-17	9.6
2017-18	9.4*