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1243079

registered interest
date	13/10/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Local Growth Deals: Ayrshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2020 to Question 84291, whether it is still his Department's plan for the final sign off of the Ayrshire Growth Deal to be by the end of October 2020; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	102872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2020 answer text <p>I am delighted to confirm that we intend to sign the Ayrshire Growth Deal in November.</p><p> </p><p>All partners have worked tirelessly to get to this point and I look forward to continued collaborative efforts with local partners, the private sector, and the Scottish Government to develop this ambitious £251.5 million programme for transformative and inclusive economic growth across the region, which will include £103 million from the UK Government.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 16/10/2020 12:33:25 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1241857

registered interest
date	08/10/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Scottish Government on the effect of the cancellation of the Autumn Budget on the devolved budget and furlough arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	101053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>At all stages of the pandemic the UK Government has sought to work constructively with the devolved administration in Scotland and will continue to do so.</p><p>HM Treasury made an unprecedented upfront guarantee to the devolved administrations, guaranteeing Scotland would receive at least £7.2 billion in additional funding this year on top of their Budget 2020 funding. This gives Scotland the budget certainty for coronavirus response in the months ahead.</p><p>In addition, the UK Government has taken substantial action to rescue the economy from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, including through the Plan for Jobs, published in July.</p><p>In September, the Chancellor announced a targeted package of measures in his Winter Economic Plan to support jobs and business through the winter months, by supporting businesses to keep staff on through the introduction of a new Job Support Scheme and an extension to the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) Grant.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 13/10/2020 13:19:33 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1240947

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions his Department has had with HM Treasury on allocating funding to the Scottish maritime industry to support decarbonisation.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	99675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government is working actively with the maritime sector to support decarbonisation at both international and domestic level. My office works closely with the Department for Transport which leads on this work, and which is focussing on supporting the decarbonisation of the industry throughout the whole of the UK. Officials from my office and DfT are meeting regularly with their counterparts in HMT.</p><p> </p><p>Domestically, the UK Government has published research exploring the opportunities and challenges arising from decarbonisation and this will provide the sector with greater clarity on what is required to achieve decarbonisation. In support of this, the Department for Transport has provided £1.5m of grants through Maritime Research and Innovation UK, supporting clean maritime innovation throughout the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Internationally, we are working with other high ambition states and the sector to develop and adopt pragmatic, effective, short and medium term measures that will peak and reduce emissions from the sector.</p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banff and Buchan answering member printed David Duguid question first answered 12/10/2020 09:05:03 answering member 4606 label Biography information for David Duguid
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1237930

registered interest
date	25/09/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Shipping: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps his Department is taking to support the decarbonisation of the maritime industry in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	95684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government is working actively with the maritime sector to support decarbonisation at both international and domestic level. My office works closely with the Department for Transport which leads on this work and which is focussing on supporting the decarbonisation of the industry throughout the whole of the UK. I also met with Maritime UK last month to discuss the sector decarbonisation in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>Domestically, the UK Government has published research exploring the opportunities and challenges arising from decarbonisation and this will provide the sector with greater clarity on what is required to achieve decarbonisation. In support of this, the Department for Transport has provided £1.5m of grants through Maritime Research and Innovation UK, supporting clean maritime innovation throughout the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Internationally we are working with other high ambition states and the sector to develop and adopt pragmatic, effective, short and medium term measures that will peak and reduce emissions from the sector.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes South answering member printed Iain Stewart question first answered 02/10/2020 12:41:55 answering member 4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1236587

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff were employed in his Department who were based in (a) London and (b) Scotland on (i) September 2020 and (ii) 1 April in each year from 2015 to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	93613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland does not employ staff directly. All staff that join do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies; principally the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice, who remain the employers.</p><p>Staff on assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies to the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland were based as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>London</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2015</strong></p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2016</strong></p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2018</strong></p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2019</strong></p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2020</strong></p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 August 2020*</strong></p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> *Data provided from 31 August as nearest recorded information held to the requested dates.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 25/09/2020 10:52:25 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1236588

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent on salaries for staff based in (a) Scotland and (b) London in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	93614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland spend on salaries for staff based in Scotland and London in each of the last five financial years is shown below:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>£000</p></td><td><p>£000</p></td><td><p>£000</p></td><td><p>£000</p></td><td><p>£000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Scotland </strong></p></td><td><p>2,137</p></td><td><p>2,326</p></td><td><p>2,309</p></td><td><p>2,690</p></td><td><p>2,849</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>London</strong></p></td><td><p>1,612</p></td><td><p>1,708</p></td><td><p>1,817</p></td><td><p>2,016</p></td><td><p>2,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,749</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>4,034</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>4,126</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>4,706</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5,270</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 25/09/2020 10:54:02 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1236589

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the absence rate was for staff of his Department based in (a) Scotland and (b) London in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	93615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland does not employ staff directly, all staff that join do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies, who remain the employer. All absence is reported to and recorded by the parent employers, who retain and manage the detailed absence data relevant to their staff.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 25/09/2020 10:50:22 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1236590

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Queen Elizabeth House: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what proportion of the cost of the recent refit of Queen Elizabeth House was borne by (a) his Department and (b) HM Treasury.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	93616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>HMRC is responsible for the construction and fit out of Queen Elizabeth House which will house nearly 3,000 civil servants from over 13 UKG departments.</p><p>My department will be responsible for part of the overall running costs of the building, supported by funding from HM Treasury as part of our annual settlement.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 25/09/2020 10:49:23 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1232634

registered interest
date	09/09/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If he will hold discussions with the Scottish Government on steps to increase the number of people being tested for covid-19 in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	905560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government continues to work with the Scottish Government and provide support where it is needed.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the six drive-in sites, and eighteen mobile units, the recently opened walk-in testing centre in St Andrews is also helping to provide significant support and resource for testing capacity in Scotland, in addition to NHS Scotland’s own capacity.</p><p> </p><p>It is for the Scottish Government to decide policy for the use of that capacity.</p> answering member constituency Banff and Buchan answering member printed David Duguid question first answered 09/09/2020 14:01:55 answering member 4606 label Biography information for David Duguid
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1232635

registered interest
date	09/09/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Fisheries: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to support the Scottish fishing sector.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Gary Sambrook
uin	905562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>My Department meets with representatives of the Scottish fishing sector on a regular basis.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of 2020, we will be out of the Common Fisheries Policy and will take back control of our waters.</p><p> </p><p>We have also guaranteed to maintain funding throughout this Parliament to support both our fishermen and the regeneration of our coastal communities across all four of the UK’s nations.</p> answering member constituency Banff and Buchan answering member printed David Duguid question first answered 09/09/2020 14:02:49 answering member 4606 label Biography information for David Duguid
tabling member	4760 label Biography information for Gary Sambrook