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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 ��˿�� 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: S6W-39883

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 1 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the total value was of all successful applications to the Town Centre Capital Fund in 2024-25, broken down by eligible town.

Question reference: S6W-39882

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 1 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many organisations made applications to the Town Centre Capital Fund in 2024-25, broken down by eligible town.

The Town Centre Capital Fund was only active in 2019-20 and 2020-21, providing funding allocations to all local authorities to support delivery of town centre regeneration

There has been significant investment over recent years in our capital investment programmes, including the Place Based Investment Programme, the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund and the Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme, which have helped to accelerate our ambitions for regeneration activity in town centres.

Question reference: S6W-39885

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 1 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the total value was of all successful applications to the Place Based Invest Programme in 2024-25, broken down by eligible town.

Place Based Investment Programme (PBIP) funding is allocated directly to Scotland’s 32 local authorities, who are responsible for targeting investment locally in line with the agreed objectives of the fund. As such, the Scottish Government does not receive applications from local organisations for this funding. A total of £5.465 million was made available to 17 local authorities in 2024-2025 via the Place Based Investment Programme (PBIP) as detailed in the following table:

Local Authority In Receipt Of PBIP Funding In 2024-2025	Total Value
Aberdeen City Council	£210,000.44
Aberdeenshire Council	£615,729.00
City of Edinburgh Council	£605,500.00
Clackmannanshire Council	£112,000.00
Dumfries and Galloway Council	£311,000.00
East Ayrshire Council	£392,582.94
East Dunbartonshire Council	£182,000.00
East Lothian Council	£128,500.00
Fife Council	£300,000.00
Inverclyde Council	£170,000.00
Moray Council	£200,000.00
North Ayrshire Council	£75,000.00
North Lanarkshire Council	£830,000.00
Perth and Kinross Council	£150,000.00
Renfrewshire Council	£300,000.00
South Lanarkshire Council	£588,600.00
West Lothian Council	£294,000.00
TOTAL	£5,464,912.38

Question reference: S6W-39887

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 1 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the total value was of all successful applications to the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund in 2024-25, broken down by eligible town.

Question reference: S6W-39893

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 29 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-31416 by Neil Gray on 28 November 2024, whether it will provide an update on the number of Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) students that graduated in summer (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025.

Question reference: S6W-40089

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 25 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 28 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how much the Scottish Land Commission has spent on diversity, equality and inclusion (a) officers and (b) training in each year since 2021.

Question reference: S6W-39818

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 28 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-14450 by Angus Robertson on 9 February 2023, how many (a) prints and (b) artworks have been donated to ministers in each year since 2021.

Question reference: S6W-39820

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 28 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the operational hours of all vessels operating on (a) CalMac and (b) NorthLink ferry services in each of the last three years, broken down by vessel.

Question reference: S6O-04871

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how growth deals are growing the economy of the Highlands and Islands region.

Question reference: S6W-40090

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 25 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 27 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £15 million funding for general practice that it announced on 21 August 2025 will support general practice in the Highlands and Islands region.

The £15 million funding for general practice announced by the Scottish Government on 21 August 2025 will be allocated to territorial health boards as outlined in the following table.

NHS Board	Additional funding (£m)
Ayrshire & Arran	1.0
Borders	0.3
Dumfries & Galloway	0.4
Fife	1.0
Forth Valley	0.8
Grampian	1.5
Greater Glasgow & Clyde	3.3
Highland	1.1
Lanarkshire	1.8
Lothian	2.4
Orkney	0.1
Shetland	0.1
Tayside	1.1
Western Isles	0.1

Total	15

	Artwork	Prints
2021	0	0
2022	0	0
2023	1	0
2024	0	0
2025	1	0