- 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, Migration to Scotland after 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
We have previously answered two FOIs on website visits to the Building a New Scotland Papers:
Paper title: Migration to Scotland after independence
Main paper URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-migration-scotland-independence/
Main paper publish date: 3-11-2023
Main paper views in first month (all pages): 22,790
Easy read URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-migration-scotland-independence-easy-read/
Easy read publish date: 3-11-2023
Easy read views or download link clicks in first month: 2,150
Audio URL: https://on.soundcloud.com/TfSaz
Audio publish date: 3-11-2023
Audio link clicks in first month: 20
Community language landing page URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-migration-scotland-independence/documents/
Translation publish date: 3-11-2023
Translation downloads in first month:
Arabic: 15
Bengalii: 6
Bulgarian: 2
Cantonese: 13
French: 16
Gaelic: 12
Hindi: 8
Italian: 1
Mandarin: 9
Polish: 1
Punjabi: 4
Romanian: 2
Russian: 6
Spanish: 15
Ukrainian: 4
Urdu: 29
BSL YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpPkTZ2ZVv8
Date BSL Version Published: 3-11-2023
Views in first 30 days: 18
- 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, Renewing democracy through 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 easy read and 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: Renewing democracy through independence
Main paper URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/renewing-democracy-through-independence/
Main paper publish date: 14-7-2022
Main paper views in first month (all pages): 11,948
Easy read URL: https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/research-and-analysis/2022/07/renewing-democracy-through-independence/documents/easy-read-version/easy-read-version/govscot%3Adocument/Easy%2BRead_Final.pdf
Easy read publish date: 23-8-2022
Easy read views or download link clicks in first month: Historic data not available for this period for downloads
Audio URL: https://soundcloud.com/scotgov/renewing-democracy-through-independence-summary-audio
Audio publish date: 25-8-2023
Audio link clicks in first month: 14
Community language landing page URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/renewing-democracy-through-independence-summary/documents/
Translation publish date: 23-8-2022
Translation downloads in first month: Historic data not available for this period for downloads
BSL YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADdaxuT7TI8
Date BSL Version Published: 21-7-2022
Views in first 30 days: 41
- 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, Citizenship in 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: Citizenship in an independent Scotland
Main paper URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-citizenship-independent-scotland/
Main paper publish date: 27-7-2023
Main paper views in first month (all pages): 32,144
Easy read URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-citizenship-independent-scotland-easy-read/
Easy read publish date: 27-7-2023
Easy read views or download link clicks in first month: 1,186
Audio URL: https://soundcloud.com/scotgov/building-a-new-scotland-citizenship-in-an-independent-scotland-summary-audio-version
Audio publish date: 27-7-2023
Audio link clicks in first month: 31
Community language landing page URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-citizenship-independent-scotland/documents/
Translation publish date: 27-7-2023
Translation downloads in first month:
Arabic: 42
Bengalii: 8
Bulgarian: 9
Cantonese: 42
French: 30
Gaelic: 27
Hindi: 13
Italian: 18
Mandarin: 69
Polish: 9
Punjabi: 9
Romanian: 6
Russian: 10
Spanish: 22
Ukrainian: 13
Urdu: 43
BSL YouTube Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5WndkF6tnw
Date BSL Version Published: 27-7-2023
Views in first 30 days : 28
- 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, An independent Scotland in the EU, 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: An independent Scotland in the EU
Main paper URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-independent-scotland-eu/
Main paper publish date: 17-11-2023
Main paper views in first month (all pages): 11,691
Easy read URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-independent-scotland-european-union-eu-easy-read-version/
Easy read publish date: 17-11-2023
Easy read views or download link clicks in first month: 573
Audio URL: https://soundcloud.com/scotgov/needs-title-building-a-new-scotland-an-independent-scotland-in-the-eu/s-IXKVEu8ZrOd
Audio publish date: 17-11-2023
Audio link clicks in first month: 15
Community language landing page URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-independent-scotland-eu/documents/
Translation publish date: 17-11-2023
Translation downloads in first month:
Arabic: 5
Bengalii: 5
Bulgarian: 0
Cantonese: 11
Croat: 1
Czech: 3
Danish: 1
Dutch: 7
Finnish: 2
French: 16
Gaelic: 13
German: 13
Greek: 3
Hindi: 1
Hungarian: 2
Irish: 5
Italian: 54
Latvian: 3
Lithuanian: 1
Maltese: 3
Mandarin: 3
Polish: 5
Punjabi: 5
Romanian: 2
Russian: 2
Slovenian: 0
Spanish: 9
Swedish: 2
Ukrainian: 1
Urdu: 5
BSL YouTube Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Lwav2GpYY
Date BSL Version Published: 17-11-2023
Views in first 30 days: 26
- 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, Creating a modern constitution for an independent Scotland.
Answer
The external costs associated with the production and publication of the paper ‘Creating a modern constitution for an independent Scotland’ were published in the answer to question S6W-20991 on 18 September 2023. Additionally, there were launch costs for travel, for staff and external attendees, catering and audio visual equipment which totalled £2269.65. 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 Christina McKelvie on 11 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is the case that it now holds information on how many handheld music devices provided through Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative are currently in use, and how much funding it has made available for the future use of these devices, and, if it is the case, whether it will provide this information.
Answer
The information requested is not centrally held. The latest Youth Music Initiative evaluation can be found on Creative Scotland's website: YMI Downloads | Creative Scotland
- 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
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Current Status:
Answered by Christina McKelvie on 11 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many complaints have been made to Historic Environment Scotland in 2023, and how many of those complaints were (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully resolved.
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.
- 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 much funding has been made available for the (a) Access to Music Making and (b) Strengthening Youth Music Fund for (i) 2023-24 and (ii) 2024-25.
Answer
2023-2024:
The Access to Music Making and Strengthening Youth Music Funds had a combined budget of £1.5 million in 2023-2024, broken down as follows:
- Access to Music Making: £1,463,199
- Strengthening Youth Music: £37,600
2024-2025:
The Scottish Government budget for 2024/25 was published on 19 December. Detail on the funding for the Youth Music Initiative will follow in due course.
