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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: S6O-00038

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 June 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans for National Towns of Culture.

Question reference: S6F-00067

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 June 2021

To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will consider issuing a formal apology to the historic victims of forced adoption.

Question reference: S5W-36126

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 23 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential impact on (a) Hunterston and Torness power stations and (b) EDF Renewables of the reported EU plan to break-up EDF, and what discussions it has had or plans with (i) the UK Government, (ii) EDF and (iii) the EU regarding this.

Question reference: S5O-05140

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what resources it has provided for investment in the West College Scotland campus.

Question reference: S5T-02718

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 15 March 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how it and Police Scotland are ensuring that women are protected from harassment and violence.

Question reference: S5W-35712

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 11 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what public funding it has provided to Rolls Royce, and what associated provisions or requirements were placed on any funding.

Question reference: S5W-34357

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what priority will be given to supermarket workers regarding the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccination programme.

We are thankful to all the supermarket workers across the country for their continued hard work to ensure that our communities and individuals have access to food supplies especially during these challenging times.

But all decisions to prioritise one population group over another are not taken lightly, nor are they straightforward. That is why our prioritisation decisions have been, and will continue to be, guided by the independent expert advice from the JCVI, who have clearly assessed that age is the greatest risk factor from Covid-19 harm.

We are working to get vaccines to everyone as quickly as we can, and hope to have vaccinated all those on the JCVI prioritisation list by the end of spring 2021, vaccine supplies permitting.

Question reference: S5W-35136

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2021
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 5 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether the "digital platform to record vaccinations" that it plans to develop, as outlined in its draft Budget, will allow for the deployment of an effective and secure health passport system as part of its response to COVID-19.

We continue to engage in international developments in relation to Coronavirus (COVID-19), including on the issue of vaccine certification.

These discussions are led by the World Health Organisation and include consideration of technical details, ethical and equality issues, and privacy standards. The outcome of those discussions will guide our work in this area.

It is too soon to introduce any form of certification. We need to know more about the efficacy of the vaccines, their impact on transmission and the length of immunity before it would be safe to introduce a vaccine certificate.

Question reference: S5W-35135

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2021
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 5 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it plans to develop a "digital platform to record vaccinations", as outlined in its draft Budget, and how it plans to utilise the data collected from the platform.

Question reference: S5W-35299

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2021
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 4 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how much capital investment there has been in each further education college in each year since 2007.

Since 2007 [i] the Scottish Government has invested £823 million in the college estates [ii]. This investment, broken down by college, is noted in the following table.

Since 2012-13 a further £330 million has been invested through Non-Profit Distribution (NPD). The Scottish Government also funds the unitary charge on the NPD college projects [iii].

College	Total capital funding 2007-20 (formulaic & projects)
Aberdeen College	22,496,223
Adam Smith College	9,447,958
Angus College	3,168,723
Anniesland College	45,960,931
Ayr College	8,650,699
Ayrshire College	17,653,621
Banff & Buchan College of Further Education	24,386,567
Barony College	1,064,694
Borders College	20,329,527
Cardonald College	5,920,999
Carnegie College	5,615,212
Central College of Commerce	2,981,252
City of Glasgow College	30,580,434
Clydebank College	9,531,475
Coatbridge College	20,607,430
Cumbernauld College	3,562,195
Dumfries & Galloway College	26,476,758
Dundee and Angus College	10,260,445
Dundee College	37,854,197
Edinburgh's Telford College	8,752,227
Edinburgh College	30,636,919
Elmwood College	2,190,438
Fife College	24,756,624
Forth Valley College	108,360,221
Glasgow Clyde College	12,746,254
Glasgow College of Nautical Studies	21,122,641
Glasgow Kelvin College	9,677,006
Glasgow Metropolitan College	5,250,493
Inverness College UHI	13,667,825
James Watt College of Further & Higher Education	11,330,398
Jewel & Esk College	27,396,967
John Wheatley College	2,863,270
Kilmarnock College	6,337,007
Langside College	35,991,485
Lews Castle College UHI	2,667,323
Moray College UHI	5,023,041
Motherwell College	46,428,145
New College Lanarkshire	19,089,051
Newbattle Abbey College	1,549,815
North East Scotland College	13,247,430
North Glasgow College	24,905,814
North Highland College UHI	7,107,972
Oatridge College	1,260,752
Orkney College UHI	1,556,568
Perth College UHI	4,954,370
Reid Kerr College	6,336,460
Sabhal Mor Ostaig UHI	2,436,257
Shetland College UHI	2,220,208
South Lanarkshire College	11,070,969
SRUC	3,196,789
Stevenson College	6,426,663
Stow College	4,464,718
West College Scotland	16,912,492
West Lothian College	12,317,187
West Highland College UHI	2,387,180
Total	823,188,319

[i] 2007 to 2018 spans the period where the sector underwent major regional mergers: some investments were in campuses which are now part of larger regional colleges.

[ii] That is, since 2007, colleges have received £823 million grant payments for capital from the Scottish Funding Council.

[iii] Since 2012-13 Scottish Government has funded the following unitary charges:

Ayrshire College - £16,665,856:

City of Glasgow - £76,925,000;

Inverness College UHI - £21,901,957