- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 12 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of all costs associated with the launch event for its paper, Migration to Scotland after independence.
Answer
The external costs associated with the production and publication of the paper ‘ Migration to Scotland after independence’ were published in the answer to question S6W-22829 on 21 November 2023. Additionally, there were launch costs for travel, for staff and external attendees, catering and venue hire, which totalled £1,443.47. 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: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 12 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many online clicks its paper, A stronger economy with independence, received in its first month following publication, broken down by (a) main paper, (b) easy read version, (c) each individual language version and (d) audio version.
Answer
Our analytics tool logs only record 13 months of data for PDF downloads, so we do not have the data for the translations of this paper as they were published out with this period.
We have previously answered two FOIs on website visits to the Building a New Scotland Papers:
Paper title: A stronger economy with independence
Main paper URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-stronger-economy-independence/
Main paper publish date: 17-10-2022
Main paper views in first month (all pages): 77,787
Easy read URL : https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-stronger-economy-independence-easy-read-version/
Easy read publish date: 27-7-2023
Easy read views or download link clicks in first month: 254
Audio URL: https://soundcloud.com/scotgov/a-stronger-economy-with-independence-summary-audio-version
Audio publish date : 17-10-2022
Audio link clicks in first month: 409
Community language landing page URL : https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-stronger-economy-independence-summary/documents/
Translation publish date: 17-10-2022
Translation downloads in first month: Historic data not available for this period for downloads
BSL YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_TGJzVEXD0
Date BSL Version Published: 17-10-2022
Views in first 30 days: 102
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 12 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many online clicks its paper, Creating a modern constitution for an independent Scotland, received in its first month following publication, broken down by (a) main paper, (b) easy read version, (c) each individual language version and (d) audio version.
Answer
We have previously answered two FOIs on website visits to the Building a New Scotland Papers:
Paper title: Creating a modern constitution for an independent Scotland
Main paper URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-creating-modern-constitution-independent-scotland/
Main paper publish date: 19-6-2023
Main paper views in first month (all pages): 9,506
Easy read URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-creating-modern-constitution-independent-scotland-summary-easy-read-version/
Easy read publish date: 19-6-2023
Easy read views or download link clicks in first month: 1,254
Audio URL: https://on.soundcloud.com/4GTRW
Audio publish date: 19-6-2023
Audio link clicks in first month: 5
Community language landing page URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-creating-modern-constitution-independent-scotland-summary/documents/
Translation publish date: 19-6-2023
Translation downloads in first month:
Arabic: 3
Bengalii: 1
Bulgarian: 1
Cantonese: 2
French: 2
Gaelic: 2
Hindi: 2
Italian: 1
Mandarin: 1
Polish: 2
Punjabi: 2
Romanian: 1
Russian: 1
Spanish: 6
Ukrainian: 1
Urdu: 2
BSL YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZKuquhRHpw
Date BSL Version Published: 19-6-2023
Views in first 30 days: 15
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 12 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of all costs associated with the launch event for its paper, Renewing democracy through independence.
Answer
The external costs associated with the production and publication of the paper ‘ Renewing democracy through independence’ were published in the answer to question S6W-11002 on 23 September 2022. Additionally, there were launch costs for travel, for staff and external attendees, a BSL interpreter and audio visual equipment which totalled £1718.60. 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: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 12 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of all costs associated with the launch event for its paper, A stronger economy with independence.
Answer
The external costs associated with the production and publication of the paper ‘A stronger economy with independence’ were published in the answer to question S6W-13303 on 16 December 2022. Additionally, there were launch costs for staff and external attendees, a BSL interpreter and audio visual equipment which totalled £1715.80. 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: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 12 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of all costs associated with the launch event for its paper, Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland?.
Answer
The external costs associated with the production and publication of the paper ‘Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why not Scotland?’ were published in the answer to question S6W-11001 on 23 September 2022. Additionally, there were launch costs for travel, for staff and external attendees, a BSL interpreter and audio visual equipment which totalled £1647.80. 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: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 11 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of any performance payments that VisitScotland has awarded to staff at executive level in each year since its creation.
Answer
VisitScotland pay all staff in line with the Scottish Government pay guidelines. HR records cover the past six years, these are stored in line with legal requirements of employee record keeping.
VisitScotland’s digitised annual accounts published on VisitScotland.org cover 2012-13 onward. Detailed in these, since (and including) the 2012-13 financial year, no bonus payments have been made to executive level staff. These annual accounts are publicly available by accessing online at https://www.visitscotland.org/about-us/annual-corporate-reports/annual-report
Please note that by ‘executive level’, VisitScotland refers to CEO and Director level staff.
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 11 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government for how much funding was provided through the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme to repair small scale wind turbines in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
Answer
No funding was offered through the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) for the repair of small scale wind turbines in 2022 and 2023.
In 2022 and 2023, CARES funding has mainly focussed on decarbonising community buildings and supporting off-electricity grid communities to upgrade their energy systems and decarbonise their energy supplies.
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 11 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses have applied to the VisitScotland Quality Assurance scheme in each year since 2016.
Answer
VisitScotland has provided the following data:
Year End Date | Count |
end Dec 2016 | 281 |
end Dec 2017 | 196 |
end Dec 2018 | 181 |
end Dec 2019 | 188 |
end Dec 2020 | 116 |
end Mar 2022 | 204 |
end Mar 2023 | 173 |
It should be noted that:
- The figures show only new applicants in each year, the figures do not include renewals.
- Figures include re-joined businesses, meaning those who left the scheme and subsequently re-joined.
- Figures show unique sites and one business may have multiple sites.
- Reporting period changed in 2021 from calendar to fiscal year.
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Christina McKelvie on 11 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many sites that are managed by Historic Environment Scotland and its predecessor agencies have been (a) open, (b) temporarily closed and (c) permanently closed in 2023.
Answer
Questions regarding day-to-day operational matters of Historic Environment Scotland are best answered directly by Historic Environment Scotland.
I have asked Historic Environment Scotland to respond directly to the member with a reply to his question in writing.
