The insolvency of the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) is a regrettable situation for staff and for Glasgow’s cultural community. Creative Scotland has kept the Scottish Government informed throughout its engagement with the appointed liquidators, who are responsible for administering redundancy payments and staff entitlements.

The Scottish Government recognises the importance of ensuring former staff receive their redundancy claims, wages and entitlements in a timely manner. Creative Scotland continues to emphasise this in its discussions with the liquidators.

Creative Scotland embeds Fair Work as a strategic priority, and Fair Work principles informed its engagement with the CCA as the organisation faced sustained financial challenges. After detailed consideration, Creative Scotland assessed that further public funding would not resolve the underlying issues and therefore would not represent responsible or effective use of public money.

The Scottish Government recognises the significant impact of the CCA’s insolvency on staff. We continue to receive updates on engagement with the liquidators and share Creative Scotland’s aim of securing the future of the venue as an important cultural asset.

Environmental Impact Assessment requirements for marine developments are set out in the Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (the Regulations). The Regulations define EIA projects as works which are either schedule 1 works or schedule 2 works likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue of factors such as their nature, size or location.

Where a proposal is identified as falling under Schedule 2, a company may request a screening opinion from the Scottish Ministers. It is for the Scottish Ministers to determine whether or not an application for the proposed works must be supported by an environmental impact assessment report. This decision is based on the likelihood of significant effects on the environment.

The purpose of any pilot, is to gather evidence and through the bus fare cap pilot we are testing the feasibility of a fare cap model. We will be monitoring the impact on bus patronage and services in the pilot areas to help inform future national fares policy.

The Scottish Government has not held any direct meetings with Borders Buses regarding the future funding of bus services operating across (a) local authority boundaries in South Scotland or (b) the Scotland–England border, as these would be local matters.

Local authorities have a duty under the Transport Act 1985 to identify where there is a social need for particular bus services and can subsidise these at their discretion. Through legislation, we have given local authorities powers on partnership working, franchising and to run their own bus services. Our approach enables local transport authorities to determine what is best to address any transport challenges in their local areas.

The merits of any proposal, both onshore and offshore, are considered on a case-by-case basis and in reaching their decision, the decision maker must determine applications in accordance with legislative requirements, relevant policies and representations from consultees and members of the public.

The purpose of any pilot, is to gather evidence and through the bus fare cap pilot we are testing the feasibility of a fare cap model. We will be monitoring the impact on bus patronage and services in the pilot areas to help inform future national fares policy.

The Scottish Government continues to engage with Creative Scotland, as owner of the CCA building, on next steps and shares its aim of securing a new operator so the centre can reopen as soon as possible.

Creative Scotland is in contact with partners in Glasgow as part of its wider work on next steps for the building and the organisation’s future.

The information you have requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.

The Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme is a reserved to, and operated by, the UK Government. As such, the Scottish Government does not undertake its own independent modelling of the scheme’s projected costs.

We continue to support the CfD mechanism as the UK’s primary route to market for low carbon electricity generation. The scheme has played a central role in enabling the deployment of renewable energy projects in Scotland, helping to reduce costs for consumers, and providing long-term revenue certainty for developers.

We will continue to engage constructively with the UK Government to ensure that the CfD framework remains effective, delivers value for money, and supports Scotland’s renewable energy potential.