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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S5W-14394

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 21 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12919 by Derek Mackay on 6 December 2017, how many times each year (a) the supply chain member has elected not to participate in and (b) a main contractor has excluded a supply chain member from a project bank account arrangement, broken down by reason.

Question reference: S5W-14387

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 21 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many public project subcontractors have been declined by each project bank account.

Question reference: S5W-14408

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 21 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government for how many operational cycles has each project bank account has been (a) operational and (b) not operational.

Question reference: S5W-14430

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 21 February 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of how its strategic supplier risk-management policy operates.

The Scottish Government has developed the Procurement Journey, a web-based collection of tools/processes to support it and the public sector community in Scotland including central government, local authorities, National Health bodies, Universities and Colleges. This includes a dedicated section on contract and supplier management. This can be found at: https://www.procurementjourney.scot/route-3/route-3-contract-supplier-management-managing-improving-performance

In addition the Scottish Government works with United Kingdom Cabinet Office to support the strategic management of key suppliers who operate across the UK.

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-14255

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 military flights there have been to and from Glasgow Prestwick Airport in each year since 2014.

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-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-14254

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 much cargo has been transported through (a) Glasgow Prestwick, (b) Glasgow International and (c) Edinburgh Airport in each year since 2014.

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.

Year	No. of military movements
2013-14	3,726
2014-15	4,153
2015-16	4,521
2016-17	3,624
2017-18 (10 months)	3,283