- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Graeme Dey on 16 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many electric vehicle charging points are installed at each of its buildings, and which of its buildings have no such charging points.
Answer
The total number of electric vehicle charging points installed at each building on the core Scottish Government Estate is in the following table. Each charging point can charge 2 electric vehicles at the same time except the charging points at Bonnington, Atlantic Quay and Kirkwall which are single points.
PROPERTY | LOCATION | NUMBER OF CHARGING POINTS |
Marine Laboratory | Aberdeen | 6 Double Points |
Ocean Trade Centre | Aberdeen | 0 |
Fishery Office | Anstruther | 0 |
Russell House | Ayr | 0 |
Balivanich | Benbecula | 0 |
Buckie Fishery Office | Buckie | 0 |
Fishery Office | Campbeltown | 0 |
Brooms Road | Dumfries | 1 Double Point |
Endeavour House | Dundee | 0 |
Bute House | Edinburgh | 1 Double Point |
Governors House | Edinburgh | 0 |
Saint Andrews House | Edinburgh | 1 Double Point |
Saughton House | Edinburgh | 5 Double Points |
Bonnington | Edinburgh | 13 Single Points |
Victoria Quay | Edinburgh | 7 Double Points |
SASA Labs | Edinburgh | 6 Double Points |
Alexander Fleming House | Elgin | 0 |
Fishery Office | Eyemouth | 0 |
Hadrian House | Falkirk | 0 |
Fishery Office | Fraserburgh | 0 |
Tweedbank | Galashiels | 2 Double Points |
Fruit Market | Glasgow | 0 |
Atlantic Quay 5 | Glasgow | 1 Single Points |
Atlantic Quay 4 | Glasgow | 0 |
The Links | Golspie | 0 |
Cadzow Court | Hamilton | 0 |
Bothwell House | Hamilton | 0 |
Hamilton House | Hamilton | 0 |
Longman House | Inverness | 1 Double Point |
Thainstone Court | Inverurie | 1 Double Point |
Fishery Office | Kinlochbervie | 0 |
Unit 4B | Kinlochleven | 0 |
Fishery Office | Kirkwall | 0 |
Tankerness Lane | Kirkwall | 1 Single Point |
Fishery Office | Lerwick | 0 |
Charlotte House | Lerwick | 0 |
Denholm House | Livingston | 0 |
Fishery Office | Lochinver | 0 |
Fishery Office | Mallaig | 0 |
Inchbraoch House | Montrose | 0 |
Cameron House | Oban | 3 Double Points |
Strathearn House | Perth | 0 |
Fishery Office | Peterhead | 0 |
Fresh Water Laboratory | Pitlochry | 1 Double Point |
Scorrybreck | Portree | 0 |
Fishery Office | Scrabster | 0 |
Keith Street | Stornoway | 0 |
Fishery Office | Stornoway | 0 |
Station Street | Stranraer | 0 |
Shieldaig Field Station | Strathcarron | 0 |
Fishery Office | Tarbert | 0 |
Strathbeg House | Thurso | 2 Double Points |
Crossapol | Tiree | 0 |
Fishery Office | Ullapool | 0 |
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 16 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many days were spent at sea on operational duties by the Marine Protection Vessels (a) Minna, (b) Jura and (c) Hirta in each year between 2018 and 2020, broken down by whether they were (i) within and (ii) outside the six nautical mile limit.
Answer
The number of days spent at sea for the Marine Protection Vessels is as follows:
| | Number of Days at Sea |
Vessel | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
MPV JURA | 285 | 322 | 299 |
MPV HIRTA | 297 | 318 | 305 |
MPV MINNA | 296 | 320 | 264 |
We are unable to separate patrol days between inside and outside inshore waters (inshore waters are generally considered to be the area covered by 6 miles from the baseline), as we do not record them in this way.
MPV Minna is an inshore/offshore vessel that generally focuses on territorial waters (0-12 nautical miles) while MPV Hirta and MPV Jura are offshore patrol vessels which spend the majority of their time patrolling territorial waters and offshore areas, apart from when transiting to patrol areas or where there is specific tasking to patrol inshore waters.
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 16 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-33611 by Mairi Gougeon on 4 December 2020, whether it will provide the information for (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22 to date regarding the number of offences recorded by Police Scotland under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953.
Answer
Information on the number of offences recorded by Police Scotland under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 is provided in the following table.
Table 1. Offences of Protection of livestock from dogs, by local authority, 2012-13 to November 2021.
| | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | April-Nov 2021* |
Aberdeen City | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Aberdeenshire | 24 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 16 | 21 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 6 |
Angus | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
Argyll & Bute | 11 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 8 |
Clackmannanshire | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 5 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 16 |
Dundee | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Ayrshire | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
East Dunbartonshire | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
East Lothian | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Edinburgh City | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
Falkirk | 8 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Fife | 9 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 2 |
Glasgow City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Highland | 15 | 10 | 15 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 16 | 8 |
Inverclyde | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Midlothian | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 2 |
Moray | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | 7 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
North Ayrshire | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
North Lanarkshire | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 |
Orkney Islands | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Perth & Kinross | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
Renfrewshire | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Scottish Borders | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 13 | 9 |
Shetland Islands | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
South Ayrshire | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
South Lanarkshire | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
Stirling | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 8 |
West Dunbartonshire | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
West Lothian | 3 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
Scotland | 125 | 98 | 109 | 174 | 175 | 170 | 168 | 151 | 163 | 103 |
Note:
* Data for 2012-13 to 2020-21 inclusive is sourced from the annual Recorded Crime in Scotland National Statistics. Data for April to November 2021 does not cover a full year and is sourced from monthly Recorded Crime in Scotland Official Statistics, and is therefore not directly comparable. The full 2021-22 reporting year will be published in 2022.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Kate Forbes on 16 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will continue the Better Places Green Recovery Fund in 2022-23, and, if so, how much it will allocate to the fund.
Answer
We have always been clear from the outset, that the funding provided in 2021-22 would be for 1 year only.
This was funded from the Covid consequentials afforded to us by the UK Government. The scheme was designed to help public bodies, local authorities and communities prepare for the 2021 season and provided some seed funding to support rangers and temporary infrastructure. It was necessary given the challenges faced in 2020 with little international travel opportunities and a large desire for domestic countryside visits.
The fund was extremely successful. A list of successful awards can be found here: Better Places Green Recovery Fund - Successful Projects | NatureScot
Going forward however, we continue to focus on long term solutions. For example, to date our Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund is supporting projects across the country to the tune of £15m. This includes permanent infrastructure such as car parks, toilets and waste disposal facilities, each with a 10 year minimum life span. We plan to continue this fund into 2022-23.
The work of the Visitor Management Steering Group will also continue. For more information please see: https://www.visitscotland.org/about-us/what-we-do/working-in-partnership/visitor-management-plan .
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 16 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-02681 by Richard Lochhead on 22 September 2021, whether it will provide the information that was requested regarding the budget stream(s) from which the 10-year £500 million Just Transition Fund for the North East and Moray will be drawn.
Answer
The 2022-23 Scottish Budget was published 9 December and is available here: Scottish Budget 2022-23 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) . The Just Transition Fund will be drawn from the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Portfolio. Level 3 information detailing the budget line for the Fund is given on page 86.
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Ash Regan on 16 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish a timeframe for the implementation of the Scottish dog control database.
Answer
The Scottish Dog Control Database Order 2021 comes into force on 31 December 2021 and provides for the establishment of the database.
Technical development of the database will be complete by 31 December; January and the first half of February 2022 will involve security testing of the database, and for users of the database to receive training.
From mid-February 2022, it is planned the database will be available as a live operational database.
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the total value of applications received from local authorities was, as part of the £32 million Local Bridge Maintenance Fund.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 23 December 2021
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that opportunities for retraining in green skills are available to workers currently employed in the oil and gas sector, to enable them to assist in reducing Scotland’s carbon emissions.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 23 December 2021
- Asked by: Karen Adam, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that every GP has access to a dedicated mental wellbeing link worker.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 23 December 2021
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it has taken to prevent the casual purchase of pets for Christmas.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 23 December 2021
