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Question reference: S6W-26028

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2024
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25697 by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 March 2024, how much funding has been awarded through the (a) Regeneration Capital Grant Fund and (b) Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme in the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

The funding awarded through the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF) and the Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme (VDLIP) over the last five years, from 2019-20 to 2023-24 by local authority area, is detailed in the following table. This table excludes projects that were subsequently withdrawn by local authorities.

Local Authority Area	RCGF grant awarded £	VDLIP grant awarded £
Aberdeen City	5,308,965	0
Aberdeenshire	4,768,313	0
Angus	2,560,000	0
Argyll and Bute	5,395,313	0
City of Edinburgh	8,686,186	2,467,784
Clackmannanshire	640,000	500,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	9,714,812	0
Dumfries and Galloway	9,749,488	0
Dundee City	1,652,708	0
East Ayrshire	5,613,101	0
East Dunbartonshire	2,050,000	1,676,000
East Lothian	1,184,266	0
East Renfrewshire	699,000	1,084,661
Falkirk	0	582,808
Fife	2,225,000	491,582
Glasgow City	32,802,584	8,784,088
Highland	7,706,568	2,550,000
Inverclyde	5,163,933	990,000
Midlothian	0	3,667,000
Moray	270,200	0
North Ayrshire	4,881,478	1,000,000
North Lanarkshire	6,446,270	350,911
Orkney Islands	1,135,460	0
Perth and Kinross	3,130,000	93,808
Renfrewshire	1,814,000	0
Scottish Borders	1,588,110	0
Shetland Islands	1,770,000	0
South Ayrshire	3,106,713	0
South Lanarkshire	10,574,384	1,244,150
Stirling	1,599,100	0
West Dunbartonshire	747,000	1,350,000
West Lothian	1,400,000	0
TOTAL	144,382,952	26,832,792

*Note: For those projects that cover two local authority areas the grant award has been apportioned.

Question reference: S6W-26021

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2024
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25697 by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 March 2024, what the provisional deadline is for the next round of Regeneration Capital Grant funding, and how this will be advertised to groups within the Cowdenbeath constituency.

Question reference: S6O-03218

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the culture secretary has had with ministerial colleagues regarding what cultural events and activities it has planned to mark the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike.

Question reference: S6W-25859

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 5 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what engagement it has had with the operators at Mossmorran on future plans to reduce emissions.

As a responsible government, we meet periodically with large industrial operators, such as those at Mossmorran, to discuss operational as well as forward looking matters focused on sustainability and decarbonisation.

To date we have had conversations with both Exxon Mobil and Shell about their participation in the Acorn Project and as part of the wider Scottish cluster, which they see as a key project to unlocking significant carbon reductions across the site.

Later this month I will be visiting the Mossmorran site to hear more about these decarbonisation plans.

Question reference: S6W-25697

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2024
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government when the next round of Regeneration Capital Grant funding will open to applications, and how much funding will be made available.

Funding to support place-based regeneration programmes has been set at £45.8 million for 2024-2025, of which £23 million is required to meet contractual commitments for existing Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF) and Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme (VDLIP) projects.

Ministers are considering options for distribution of the remaining regeneration capital budget allocation for 2024-2025 and we will clarify how this will be allocated in due course.

Question reference: S6O-03173

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the improvement plan for the Fife Circle railway line.

Question reference: S6W-25407

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 February 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 27 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to mark the 40th anniversary of the miners' strike in Scotland.

The Miners' Strike of 1984-85 is considered to be the most bitter industrial dispute in living memory. The Scottish Government recognises that the impact of the strike still runs deep in Scotland's former mining heartlands. Scotland is at the forefront across the UK in recognising the need to provide reconciliation, dignity and comfort to those communities still affected. That is why the Scottish Government brought forward legislation to provide a symbolic pardon to miners and other participants in the strike in relation to various offences committed during the dispute. We also continue to call on the UK Government to undertake a full UK-wide public inquiry into the strike.

The Scottish Government is therefore considering how best to raise the profile of the strike and its legacy in former mining communities, as the 40th anniversary of the dispute approaches.

Question reference: S6W-25436

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 February 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 27 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) turned down requests from the professor of criminology, Joe Phoenix, to participate in its policy review on the management of transgender people in custody on three occasions, whether the SPS did turn down such requests, and, if so, for what reason.

I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:

Protecting the health, safety, and wellbeing of all people in Scotland’s prisons is at the heart of SPS’ newly published Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody (2023).

The SPS engaged with approximately 400 people during the review of the SPS Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment Policy (2014), and the SPS has no record of any communication from Professor Jo Phoenix during this period.

Question reference: S6W-25411

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 February 2024
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 27 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what funding it has made available to Fife Council from the Ukraine Longer Term Resettlement Fund.

Question reference: S6W-25051

Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 15 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-24401 by Michael Matheson on 24 January 2024, regarding the additional capital funding spend in the Scottish Budget 2024-25, which budget line covers each of the projects listed in the answer.